LIVE UPDATES DAY 2: Oil Debate in Parliament
By Sheila Naturinda & Monitor Online Reporters (email the author)
Posted Tuesday, October 11 2011 at 02:26
Posted Tuesday, October 11 2011 at 02:26
1:10pm:- Speaker rules that she shouldn’t be thrown into any caucus because she doesn’t belong to any caucus- she says “let us address the issues which arose yesterday.”
Mbabazi says anyone who wishes him out of NRM is wasting his time
Mbabazi says anyone who wishes him out of NRM is wasting his time
• Mbabazi says the allegations made to his name should be investigated so that people speak with facts
1:09pm:- Amama Mbabazi takes to the floor to clear the allegations made on his name yesterday on the start of the debate. He says he wants to make 2 points.
• Amama says, “Me as a leader of the movement and a leader of the government business am fully with you on the methods of working in open and transparency” he says that is the hall mark of the NRM for all this time.
• Hussein Kyanjo takes to point of order: Since yesterday every member here present knows for a fact that we came for the important debate as Ugandans to use similar tools and understanding. Secondly there was a rumour that the caucus had time to sit. Is Prime Minister in order to bring the ideas of NRM as if we are in the caucus? If he wants to bring ideas of the caucus, let him go back to the caucus.
1:06 pm:- Kasirivu says even the Bunyoro kingdom isn’t being consulted on oil matters yet the kingdom has the 1965 agreement section 65 “in the event of a mineral loyalty, a substantial part shall be paid to the kingdom.” He says the kingdom isn’t being consulted and he wonders if government waits for people to go to court over such issues.
• Kasirivu says in the 6th Parliament Uganda was almost getting into a bigger problem over the Karuma project. He says the agreement had a phrase that government was to guarantee the water levels- how do you guarantee such levels?
• Kasirivu says when the lawyers who drafted it were asked on how to guarantee water levels- none of them could answer. That is why 6th parliament refused to have the agreement signed.
• Kasirivu says government should listen to the people of Uganda that we need good laws and good agreements so that everybody enjoys and lives in harmony and when we meet we remind ourselves of the good agreements we made..but to think that afew people matter and others don’t matter even in the face of God, its not proper.
01:02pm:- Kasirivu Atwooki takes to the floor and says he thanks the movers of the motion and that Parliament also be thanked for the good debate. He says everybody in government should be very proud of this parliament that such a debate is going on.
• Kasirivu says allegations are normal and will continue being made but most important is to make sure there are mechanisms to find out the truth.
• Kasirivu says even the oil companies must be proud of the debate that they will operate in an environment which is very transparent because anybody who wants to have things in the dark, it is unfortunate.
• Kasirivu says the matters of environment aren’t being brought out very well because most areas will have environmental degradation. He says the money is being eaten in Kampala and oversees but the community around will suffer a lot and that is what they call curse.
• Jalia Bintu takes to the floor for information. She says the issues of environmental managements are still a problem. She says when she visited with the committee they found out that the wastes were left to evaporate and the humans were left to inhale such stuff which are hazardous.
• Bintu says with the heavy rains they are being washed away and in the next 20 years we could have cancers from those elements- she says government should handle that issue as soon as possible.
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