KAMPALA: President Museveni has said the NGOs have no role in monitoring Uganda’s oil and gas sector.
Speaking at the signing of the Final Investment Decision (FID) with oil companies and the government of Tanzania in Kampala on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, the President said there is no secrecy in regard to Uganda’s oil agreements with foreign companies and accused NGOs of spreading confusion in the sector.
Ugandan NGOs have been accusing the government of not disclosing the agreements it signed with oil companies.
“NGOs are people who have no work, but they spread a lot of confusion. My people at L. Albert were chasing them,” he said.
Nevertheless, the President appealed to the stakeholders in the sector to leave them to do their work.
“I appeal to Ugandans in those areas, let the NGOs go and sleep in the bush if they want. There is nothing we are hiding. You leave them,” he said.
“In Europe, the more useless you are, the better. Here is Africa, we don’t allow useless people to walk around. You leave them; our allies might think we are hiding something, ” he added.
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During the function, the President also allayed fears that Uganda’s oil, which is expected to be produced in 2025, will lose market share because of the growing preference of green energy across the world.
“There is a move to green energy in the world. There is worry if our oil doesn’t kudiba (fail to have a market). We have studied this, and we know our oil won’t kudiba (kudoda in Kiswahili), ” President Museveni said.
The FID means launching Uganda’s oil project to the next development and construction phases and starting commercial oil production by 2025.
This means TotalEnergies will start construction on its Tilenga oil project in Nwoya and Buliisa districts.
The two oil companies, along with the Uganda National Oil Company (Unoc) and Tanzania through its national oil company, TPDC, are shareholders in the proposed EACOP, which will transport crude oil from the central point in Hoima to Tanga Port en route to the international market. The shareholding in the EACOP holding company is as follows: Unoc with 15 percent, TotalEnergies East Africa Midstream B.V with 62 percent, Cnooc with 8 percent, and TPDC with 15 percent.