In his speech to Parliament last week, President Museveni said he ordered the signing of oil agreements despite objections from Parliament partly because Uganda is losing time.
The President said a Chinese minister had cautioned him that oil might not be as important as it is today in the next 20 years because the world is increasingly looking to cleaner energy, which essentially means solar, nuclear and wind energy. Museveni also revealed that every day the world receives from the sun a total amount of energy that is 50 times the amount of electricity generated in the whole world for one year!
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