Uganda MPs to Petition EU to Investigate Tullow Oil

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Uganda MPs to Petition EU to Investigate Tullow Oil

February 25th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

This week, acting Government Chief Whip in Parliament, Daudi Migereko said President Yoweri Museveni had intercepted a letter asking the House of Commons to investigate the oil agreements signed between Tullow Oil and Uganda Government. He said the President was concerned about the letter because it could derail the oil production process in Uganda. The letter contests the legality of the agreements in light of a Parliament resolution which put a moratorium on the signing of the oil agreements until the relevant laws are enacted by Parliament.

An oil rig near the shores of Lake Albert in western Uganda

allAfrica.com
24 February 2012

A group of Members of Parliament from both the ruling and opposition side have vowed to petition European Union Parliament to investigate oil companies, Tullow Oil and Total.

The MPs said they were not only going to mobilize colleagues who believe in transparency and accountability to sign the petition, but also mobilize civil society organizations, religious leaders and all Ugandans of good will.

The announcement was made at an impromptu press conference called by MPs to talk about the recent transaction between Government and Tullow Oil and the subsequent farm down by the company to France’s Total and China’s CNOOC oil companies.

The press conference was addressed by ten MPs at Parliament buildings on Thursday.

The legislators argued that the government had simply “donated” the country’s natural resource. “With a lot of pain, we are calling you to tell you that we have been given a bad deal,” Theodore Sekikubo said.

Wilfred Niwagaba (NRM) said they were petitioning the EU Parliament with a purpose to investigate Tullow and Total to ascertain whether their practices in the oil transactions with government comply with their standards.

“We want the EU Parliament to find out whether the transactions entered into with the Ugandan Government meet their criteria of transparency and accountability, and environmental concerns,” he explained.