Uganda should fairly compensate landowners over new pipeline, says Oxfam
Kampala — Uganda should fairly compensate landowners affected by a pipeline that will transport oil to an Indian Ocean port after accusations that some people reimbursed for earlier public projects were left worse-off, Oxfam International has said. The London-based charity said it’s concerned that "community participation, livelihoods and land rights could be overlooked in a quest to meet the schedule for land acquisition" for the 1,445km conduit that will link Uganda’s western oil fields with Tanga in Tanzania. Total, China’s CNOOC and London-based Tullow Oil are developing Uganda’s estimated 6.5-billion barrels of oil resources, with the planned pipeline crossing eight districts and 296km in the country. "Oxfam is interested in seeing that extractives projects benefit host communities and that governments and citizens in resource-rich countries get a fair share of their natural resource wealth," Gerald Byarugaba, extractive industries co-ordinator at the charity’s Ugandan office, ...
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