OIL IN UGANDA,WHOSAID WHAT

“Stop parliament giving oil to an individual [the minister in charge of petroleum],” runs the headline of a statement issued by a consortium of Ugandan NGOs and civil society alliances.
BUT WHAT DID SOME INDIVIDUALS SAY
Bugweri MP, Abdu Katuntu
“Let us not show the country that we are voting machines.” “We need to stand up and be counted, we must vote by roll-call,” he challenged the House. “Oil is the only strategic resource we have.”
Hon. Medard Ssegona
“We shall think again, convince our colleagues to drop the recommital. Under no circumstances shall it go on. They have developed mob justice but we have a strategy.”
Beatrice, a member of Kwatanza Women’s Farmers Group in Hoima District’s Buseruka sub-county, where the government plans to build an oil refinery.
“It is going to displace some people and we are worried that if the law is not fairly put our people may not be fairly compensated” she told Oil in Uganda.
“I came because there is a very important law that is going to be passed and I want to see, me a Munyoro woman, how am I going to benefit. I wanted to enter into parliament because I know it is my right as a Ugandan to go into the gallery and listen to whatever is taking place but to my shock I’ve been stopped from the gate [told] that I am not supposed to enter, that I was supposed to have got prior notice.”
EXTRACT FROM OIL IN UGANDA

THE TALK ON OIL IN UGANDA

According to The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Investment in the country’s oil and gas sector which is now over US $ 1.5 billion. The companies currently licensed in the country are Tullow Oil, Total E&P, China National Offshore Oil
Corporation (CNOOC) and Dominion Petroleum.Acquisition of geoscientific data which includes over 7,194 line Kms of two dimensional and 1,608 km2 of three dimensional seismic data; geological mapping of over 10,000 km2 for petroleum exploration; 7,500 line km of gravity and magnetic data; 9,578 line km of aeromagnetic data and drilling of 77 wells.

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development appreciates the support of all stakeholders in taking forward the oil and gas sector to achieve the goal of the National Oil and Gas Policy, which is

“To use the country’s oil and gas resources to contribute to early achievement of poverty eradication and create lasting value to society.”

President Yoweri Museveni’s senior media advisor John Nagenda on oil debate;
“I say, without any doubt, that it would be calamitous for this country to have a single individual decide what happens in the field of oil, including giving licences and revoking them.”
“The shame of it, as no doubt some fear, that they might trample her and (worse) her mace. By a side-door she left the rowdy MPs to it,” Nagenda said, adding:

“I say, without any doubt, that it would be calamitous for this country to have a single individual decide what happens in the field of oil, including giving licences and revoking them.”