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At times when the Tshele storage units are full, resources initiatives. He did reveal that state-
he said, BOL will be able to load fuel onto trucks owned BOL had drafted a bill that would let it
for transport across the Kazungula bridge in assume greater control over the fuel industry. ™
Zambia.
Kenamile further stated that the national
government would like to see more local
workers and investors participate in the fuel
business. During the most recent shortages,
he commented, BOL hired six new Botswana
employees to support its logistics operations.
These workers have enabled the company to put
another 30 tanker trucks on the road to supply
the domestic market, he said.
The acting COO did not say whether the
company had drawn up any specific human BOL aims to expand the Francistown fuel depot (Photo: CRO)

Ugandan presidential candidate criticises

current administration’s approach to oil

UGANDA A candidate in Uganda’s next presidential elec- because it has been kept secret ... We all need to
tion, scheduled for January 2021, has criticised know how oil is going to be refined, how benefits
the current administration’s handling of oil will be shared and, most important, how reve-
investments and revenues. nues will be utilised,” the candidate commented.
Major-General Mugisha Muntu, who is rep- He also pledged to take a more produc-
resenting the Alliance for National Transforma- tive approach. “The good thing is [that] if you
tion (ANT), said at a recent campaign event in trust and elect me and ANT into power, reve-
the western Kikuube district that it was the gov- nues from [the] oil and gas industry and from
ernment’s responsibility to implement the laws other resources shall be properly utilised and
and policies that have already been adopted to accounted for, because as a party, we have finan-
govern the oil industry. cial discipline ... I will lead a team of disciplined
Kampala has not displayed sufficient integ- men and women, and we shall put this country
rity and discipline on this front, and it has not back on track,” he said, according to local press
been sufficiently transparent about the oper- reports.
ational or financial details of exploration and Muntu also accused Yoweri Museveni, the
development projects, he said. “We all don’t country’s current president, of treating the oil
know what is happening in the oil industry, sector as if it were a personal possession.

Muntu has raised doubts about President Museveni’s handling of oil money (Photo: Facebook campaign site)

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