LIVE UPDATES DAY 2: Oil Debate in Parliament
By Sheila Naturinda & Monitor Online Reporters (email the author)
Posted Tuesday, October 11 2011 at 02:19
Posted Tuesday, October 11 2011 at 02:19
• Hussein Kyanjo stands on point of procedure saying Onek looks like he is defending himself yet the rules provide that a member can only write an explanation.
• Speaker rules that its important that parliament takes Onek’s side of the story before continuing with the debate.
• Onek says he will write a personal document but now must table some documents on the table- he went to police August 16, 2010 made a statement and directed the director of CID and find out who is trying to blackmail me, and find out if that account really exists .
• Onek says even the Tullow boss Brian Glover was also investigated by police and he gave a statement- Onek also tables phone print outs of the caller and him over the accounts ‘blackmail.’
12:13pm:- Ruhunda says he has a summary of all PSAs and finds that Europeans have partnered with Ugandan elites to hoodwink the country.
• Ignatius Besisira stands on point of information that in Bunyoro the Europeans took their land and today they are taking our oil he says he is about to regret why he was born in Bunyoro because while he lacks land there, he is about to have the oil curse and its very painful.
• Ruhunda returns but Epetait Francis moves on order that prime Minister isn’t in order to make phone calls when debate is going on.
• Speaker rules that its a breach of rules of parliament to use telephones in the chamber.
12:10pm:- Hatwib Katoto: The ministers mentioned should voluntarily or be forced to resign as the commission investigates lest they compromise the investigations. We shall not achieve what we want to achieve if they remain in the seats of executive when they are being investigated.
• Biraro appeals to Museveni to stay clear in this matter and stay away. Museveni shouldn’t influence peddle and interfere at all.
• Alex Ruhunda: Ugandans out there are very anxious and looking at all of us and bank on us. We have talked about corruption for a long time and as NRM members who would want to see the party move on for more 70 years to come, we feel terribly cheated by those supposed to be our mentors in the party. Our moral ability to engage is facing a lot of challenges.
• Ruhunda says its painful for him to stand and debate on issues where senior people are being implicated. We must restore dignity and can only do that when you have the title of honourable until that point where you can say ‘let me resign, enough is enough.’
• Ruhunda says colleagues in the NRM party must know how the President feels with such people. The last time he wanted to raise issues of fake agreements made by the Attorney general that sell the country.
12:05pm:- Sebuliba says Nigerians fought for the oil because of such elements and if Uganda isn’t careful, we could end up like Nigeria. He says if the ministers mentioned should support the commission of inquiry or they step aside for investigations or we use rule 118 and eliminate them from here.
• Sebuliba says he is perturbed because when you look at the agreements talked about, where production is 5,000 per day, we share 50-50 and where the production is higher than 20,000, Uganda gets 65, what will refuse the companies to get 200,000 per day and we get 50-50 in order to earn more than we do? We need an oil regime to supervise oil sector.
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