Uganda: Understand the Transparency Initiative On Oil

opinion

Supporting the EITI is a good thing; understanding how it works is even better

One of the resolutions passed by the 9th Parliament on Oct.11 was a demand for the government to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Seeing and hearing the members of Parliament chorus "Aye," one could not easily tell majority of them were responding to something they did not clearly understand but were convinced is a good idea since the petitioners had done a good job to convince the House to pass the resolutions.

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