Comments on: Is there a political side to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill?

By: wendy

wendy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:21:28 +0000

Otunnu is a personal friend of a woman formerly from Uganda who is part of my congregation. He has met my pastor and visited here in Mississauga. He is a well educated and passionate follower of Jesus and I hope and pray that he will be successful in the future elections in Uganda.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:50:20 +0000

Yep, bellow about homosexuality and make deals like this in the dark. Spend as much money on military hardware as the US provides in PEPFAR funds. I cannot see why Uganda should have Su30MK2. Something like a slow, all-weather, ground attack plane like the Su39 seems like it would better suit any millitary action Uganda might find itself in.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:19:18 +0000

Meant to add, the info on oil companies in Uganda and Ugandan/Russian deal on jet aircraft was taken from the current issue of the Oil & Gas Journal – 12 April 2010.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:16:39 +0000

While we’re on the politics of Uganda. There is a hold-up in Uganda’s approval of Tullow Oil of Ireland/UK taking over the interests of Heritage Oil of Calgary, AB, Canada, in their shared blocks in the Lake Albert Basin. Heritage is getting ancy over it and Tullow is sallow.

Tullow wants to bring in the Chinese National Offshore Oil Co. (CNOOC) and Total S.A. (Italy) to help develop the oil in the basin and build a refinery for the high-wax oil that is in the Lake Albert Basin, in which CNOOC is particularly experienced. There may be a reason for this.

There have been ongoing talks between Uganda and Rosoboronexport, a Russian company which markets Russian space technologies under strict state control, and Sukhoi to purchase 6 Su30MK2 multirole fighter aircraft. But then Uganda doesn’t have the $300 million to buy the aircraft (and does it even need them?). Supposedly the deal is just about fully agreed to. So Uganda is doing possibly something fuzzy to get Lukoil into their oil reserves. Lukoil is the largest oil company in Russia with over 10 trillion barrels in proven reserves, fully integrated from exploration and drilling to distribution and retail.

As such Museveni has announce a new round of licensing of its lands in the Albertine basin and with even more lucrative rights than given Tullow/Heritage. Guess who gets them…. could it be…. Lukoil? Uganda has many social issues to address from many years in turmoil and yet Museveni wants to buy 6 fighter jet aircraft his country doesn’t need? This is what he is going to waste his petro-shillings on?

$300 million is about what Uganda got via PEPFAR funding from the US in 2008. Perhaps they don’t need that money if Museveni is going to unChrist-like waste his countries future oil revenues on shiny, fast baubles of war.

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By: icearc

icearc — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:37:07 +0000

That’s the point Benson Obua of UPC a co-sponsor of the bill has to digest. His party’s candidate may have to fight it out in the courts just to get on the ballot or get the distraction of answering charges during the campaign. Wouldn’t be the first time candidate faced trumped up charges during an election.