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12 Oct 2015

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Oil in Uganda

Uganda: Families displaced for oil refinery construction protest delay in relocation

“What’s taking so long?”

At least 60 of the 93 families that are awaiting resettlement from land earmarked for an oil refinery staged a peaceful demonstration in Hoima town last week, protesting government’s failure to relocate them three years after acquiring their land.

...[T]he families walked for about 50 kilometres from Kabaale Parish in Buseruka sub-county to Hoima town where they presented their petition to the Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Isaac Kawooya. “We believe that your good office will understand the suffering we are going through and take immediate action in view of our demands regarding the suffering we have been enduring since 2012 when the government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) demarcated our land for the oil refinery,” the petition...reads in part.