Over 30,000 not on Yaka, says Umeme

By Tausi Nakato At least 31,000 out of 1.8 million Umeme customers are not connected to Yaka, a new prepaid electricity metering system. Umeme started installing prepay meters in 2011 after a one-year pilot study in parts of Kampala showed homeowners prefer it to post-paid billing. Accordingly, every customer is expected to pay service fee and VAT per month, plus the additional 15 units at the first purchase of the month. Mr Stephen Illungole, the Manager Public Relations and Communication, however, says the figure is down from 200,000 households still using post-paid electricity meters in 2020. “This is great progress. It means no customer will be on the post-paid billing system in the near future,” he said in an interview […]