Owen Falls Dam was constructed and commissioned by the colonial and Uganda administration between 1954  and 1969. At the time, it was clear that the energy future of the country was very bright. The national demand was low, no wonder the administration then had the imperative to even export some of the electricity to Kenya. Renamed Nalubale Dam by president Museveni in 2002 to distinguish it from the extension called Kiira, it was then proposed that power from this dam would serve only central and eastern Uganda.  The newspaper of the time, Uganda Argus of May 2, 1955 quotes the first Chairman of the Uganda Electricity Board (UEB) Sir Charles Westlake as saying “… furthest west Owen Falls power will not go beyond Masaka. Anything beyond that would have to come from local hydro electric sources.”