Fianna Fáil, Tullow Oil & Uganda

[Éireann go Brách]

KAMPALA Uganda—U.K.-based Tullow Oil PLC, which operates three oil blocks in Uganda's oil-rich Lake Albertine Rift, Tuesday denied allegations that it paid several Ugandan officials to sway key decisions regarding its licenses in the country, officials said Tuesday.

In a letter addressed to the parliamentary speaker, Tullow Oil Chief Executive Aidan Heavey said the company "rejects the outrageous and defamatory accusations of corruption" made against it in the Ugandan Parliament during the debate Monday evening.

The Ugandan prime minister, Amama Mbabazi, one of the government officials being accused of bribery, read the letter on the floor of parliament during an emergency session to discuss oil issues in the country.

Tullow Denies Uganda Graft Charges - WSJ.com

Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and two senior ministers accepted bribes from an oil company, one of the country’s MPs has claimed in parliament. Gerald Karuhanga said that the Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister and Internal Affairs Minister had received bribes from British-based Tullow Oil, and presented a document entitled Brief on Uganda’s Oil Deals to back up his accusations. He added that he intends to present parliament with a motion to establish a committee to investigate bribery in the oil industry.


Ugandan PM Took Bribes From Tullow -- MP

[Catalpa]

KAMPALA Uganda—U.K.-based Tullow Oil PLC, which operates three oil blocks in Uganda's oil-rich Lake Albertine Rift, Tuesday denied allegations that it paid several Ugandan officials to sway key decisions regarding its licenses in the country, officials said Tuesday.

In a letter addressed to the parliamentary speaker, Tullow Oil Chief Executive Aidan Heavey said the company "rejects the outrageous and defamatory accusations of corruption" made against it in the Ugandan Parliament during the debate Monday evening.

The Ugandan prime minister, Amama Mbabazi, one of the government officials being accused of bribery, read the letter on the floor of parliament during an emergency session to discuss oil issues in the country.

Tullow Denies Uganda Graft Charges - WSJ.com

Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and two senior ministers accepted bribes from an oil company, one of the country’s MPs has claimed in parliament. Gerald Karuhanga said that the Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister and Internal Affairs Minister had received bribes from British-based Tullow Oil, and presented a document entitled Brief on Uganda’s Oil Deals to back up his accusations. He added that he intends to present parliament with a motion to establish a committee to investigate bribery in the oil industry.


Ugandan PM Took Bribes From Tullow -- MP

Has the Right Honourable Gerald Karuhanga UMP been reading P.ie I wonder?

[Niceguyeddie]

Perhaps...
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Ugandan Lawmakers Force Stop To Tullow Deal

[Catalpa]

Further developments in this case are now making the pages of the Irish Times:

NONE OF the Ugandan men accused of receiving bribes from Tullow Oil have bank accounts in the UK or Malta, according to documents seen by The Irish Times, as one of the government officials implicated in the scandal promised to step down yesterday.

No bank accounts in name of Uganda accused - The Irish Times - Sat, Oct 15, 2011

[Catalpa]

Tullow Oil has deepened its involvement in Uganda with the latest couple of deals

Tullow Oil has signed two production-sharing agreements with Uganda, allowing it to complete a deal with China's CNOOC and France's Total that will pave the way for commercial oil production.

"Clearly it's a positive that they'll receive the cash and the development of the Ugandan resource can now go ahead," Numis analyst Sanjeev Bahl said.

But who got the cash?

Tullow signs Uganda agreements - The Irish Times - Fri, Feb 03, 2012

[Éireann go Brách]

Those jets are giving them some trouble both of them have been put out of action by some accounts
4 more on the way.
One had a bird strike and had to get its engine replaced but that under a three year warranty so the Russians are going to fix that for free and in another incident one of them may have crashed on landing but the government is denying this saying it was a training aircraft that crashed.

A recently delivered Sukhoi Su-30 may have crash-landed at Entebbe International Airport, with witnesses contradicting official statements claiming it was a small training aircraft.

Some international flights were delayed late on Monday whilst the wreckage was removed from Entebbe airport.
Ugandan People’s Defence Force spokesperson Colonel Felix Kulyaigye said that a small training aircraft undertaking a normal and routine simulated crash landing exercise encountered a minor error while landing at the Entebbe.
“The two pilots manning the aircraft however, landed safe and were not in anyway injured. There were no passengers on board,” he said. “Engineers are working to establish and rectify the cause.”
Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper reports Civil Aviation Authority spokesperson, Ignie Igundura as saying it was a military aircraft.
The paper quotes witness Isaac Mukasa as saying he saw a fighter jet land on its belly on the runway at Entebbe and fire trucks rush to its rescue. “I was at Kigungu stage and heard a bang on the runway prompting us to run and see what was happening. I then saw the jet moving on its belly for some distance and it stopped,” he said adding: “Two fire trucks then hurried to pour water on the plane before two crew members jumped out and later security operatives chased us away.”
Hasjif Kabanda, a resident of Kigungu, said he heard a bang and later people in Kigungu started shouting that a fighter jet had crashed.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.ph...d=74&Itemid=30

[Catalpa]

Those jets are giving them some trouble both of them have been put out of action by some accounts
4 more on the way.
One had a bird strike and had to get its engine replaced but that under a three year warranty so the Russians are going to fix that for free and in another incident one of them may have crashed on landing but the government is denying this saying it was a training aircraft that crashed.


http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.ph...d=74&Itemid=30

Will we give them more 'Aid' then to replace they on they lost?

[Goldencircle]

Aidan Heavey, founder of the FTSE-100 firm Tullow Oil, received a pay package of £4.4m last year – and is expected to see his pay jump further in future years after the exploration group's non-executive directors controversially doubled his potential long-term performance bonus.

The group's annual report for last year shows that Heavey, who founded the business in 1985 and built it into a FTSE 100 firm, received a pay package worth £2.36m, including a base salary of £815,340, up 20% on the year before. During the year he also qualified to receive shares worth £2.06m, and can take ownership of these at any time of his choosing.

Tullow Oil founder sees bonus doubled | Business | The Guardian

[Cynicist]

Irish Aid sups with the devil with a short spoon.

People forced off their lands in Uganda.
Under President Museveni’s directive, 22,000 people were evicted from the districts of Kiboga and Mubende to give way for UK's New Forest Company's pine tree project worth millions of dollars. This eviction occurred ten years after another massive eviction of over 1000 people also directed by the president to give way for a large commercial coffee estate by German's firm NewMann Caffe.
The President wants over 40,000 hectares given to the Madhivani Group to grow sugarcane. The government claims the land belongs to Madi East Forest Reserve and is, therefore, under the Uganda Wildlife Authority. But residents insist it is their land. Lives have been lost in protests, scores arrested, and property destroyed.
Apart from these cases, in Bullisa, oil activities by international oil companies Tullow Oil, among others, have also exacerbated land grabbing with up to 700 hectares of land grabbed.
In all these cases, critics have attacked the government for carrying out the evictions brutally, failing to compensate the evictees, and failing to secure them alternative homes. In case of the Mubende evictions, evictees ended up crammed up on the edges of the two commercial estates.

from: allAfrica.com: Uganda: Museveni Angry Over NGO Report On Land Grabbing

Irish Aid wears its blindfold in Uganda and basically has no business there in a country which panders to its elites and denies its poor the basic rights of life.

[dagenict]

IN the name of humanity ,how can MARTIN stand before the people and have partisapated in talks with those people in a country that cares so littel for human life.