Bugala Island

Bugala island is the most developed of all the other islands in Kalangala district and acts as the center and main island. The Island is home to two oil palm mills^[3] one located at Bukuzindu in Mugoye sub county and the other at Bwendero all in Bujumba county. It also has a grade 'B' Murram road running from Luku to Kalangala to Mulabana stretching 65.6 Km which acts as the island main road. This road was Rehabilitated by Kalangala Infrastructure services (KIS) in 2016. To it also connects several other feeder roads from landing sites and remote villages. Bugala island also has roads connecting palm oil plantations. Buggala island has hybrid-electric power generated at Bukuzindu in Mugoye subcounty by KIS "..........Bukuzindu Power Plant is a 1.6 MW solar-diesel hybrid power plant that supplies power to the population of the Bugala Island in Lake Victoria. It was commissioned in December 2014 and began operations in March 2015. It currently supplies power to over 3,397 households and 49 commercial customers, including a few hotels and small enterprises........" reads part of the data accessed from Buggala's electricity power supplier'^[4] s website. On top of this 'in-house' generated electric power, Buggala Island was connected to the national electricity grid in June 2024^[5] through a 6 km submarine power cable passing through lake Victoria from Bukakata in Masaka District to Bugoma on Buggala Island. Buggala Island is also home to two of the four secondary schools in it mother district kalangala these are Bishop Dunstan Nsubuga Memorial Secondary School in kalangala town council and Sserwanga Lwanga memorial secondary school in Mugoye sub county. The health infrastructure on Buggala Island include Kalangala Health center IV in kalangala town council and other lower ranking health facilities such as health center III and II.

People on Buggala Island engage in four major activities that is

• Fishing
• Plantation agriculture (Oil Palm growing)
• Retail trading
• Tourism Business

 

• Gen Edward Katumba Wamala (Former Police IGP, CDF and current Minister for works and transport)
• Late Col. Sserwanga Lwanga (Former CA delegate and UPDF^[6] political commissar / NRA bush War Veteran)
• Late Hon. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere^[7] (Former Cabinet minister and leader of the Democratic party in Uganda)
• Late Hon. Gerald Mutebi Mulwanira^[8] (Former Minister of State for Lands, Housing and Urban Development)

Buggala island attracts a number of tourists from mainland Uganda and beyond the country borders.

Some of the tourists attractions are;

White sand Beaches majorly situated at lutoboka such as Mirembe resort, Luggo cultural Forest where Buganda Kingdom's Ddamula is got from, missionaries Brother Amans ^[9] and Fr. Siméon Lourdel Marpel (commonly known as Mapeera's) stop over at Bugoma, John Speke's Cave and so much more