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You want Oil by 2020, but for who?

Everyone is excited about the expectation of the first oil to be pumped out by 2020 and to this end, there are many processes that seem to be in haste in order to achieve this target. Over years now, the Albertine graben has been busy with developers undertaking various activities in a bid to ensure smooth operations. The question that is never answered is, whose oil is it? Whose development is it? To have over 817 PAPs not compensated for their land for a central processing facility in Kasenyi, Buliisa is not good news at all to them! No wonder, recently the residents had to protest and stop the Developers from accessing this land until they are fully compensated! They are absolutely right, there can never be development for us without us; you cannot want to acquire of 300Square miles where people derive their livelihood all in the name of development and leave them helpless. As if that is not enough, we have gone ahead to launch the East African Crude Oil Pipe line that will run f