April 28, 2021 Mary Goretti Kitutu, the minister of Energy and Mineral Development
On Thursday, April 15, 2021, two letters purportedly issued by State House made rounds in the media. One of the letters said the former executive director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Godfrey Turyahikayo had been reappointed to the top job and Charles Lutwama, also formerly with REA, appointed as deputy.
In the second letter, titled “Immediate Arrest and Apprehension of Mr John Turyagyenda and Mr Godfrey Werikhe”, the president reportedly expressed regret that the minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Mary Goretti Kitutu had renewed the contracts of the two officers indicted by investigative reports from the Inspector General of Government (IGG), Police Criminal Investigations Division (CID) and the Internal Security Organization (ISO).
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Sputnik International
by Mongabay.com on 19 April 2021
The $3.5 billion heated oil pipeline will connect oil fields in the Lake Albert basin in western Uganda to the port of Tanga on the Tanzanian coast.
Developed by French oil major Total and Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the project has faced staunch opposition from environmentalists who point out that it cuts through some of East Africa’s most biodiversity-rich areas.
The path of the pipeline will impact almost 2,000 square kilometers (770 square miles) of protected areas, a quarter of that the habitat of eastern chimpanzees and African savanna elephants, and displace more than 12,000 families.
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As government continues to prospect and explore oil wells in parts of western, central and northern regions, scores of homesteads that have been displaced by the quest to have oil exports ready by 2025 have lost farmlands.
In Kakumiro District in western Uganda, more than 200 people affected by the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) have cited delayed compensation of their properties in the wake of signing of the tripartite pipeline between oil companies and Uganda and Tanzania governments.
Daily Monitor has established that the affected persons are mainly from Mpasana, Kisiita, Katikara, and Ntoroko sub-counties in Kakumiro.
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