The students were attempting to deliver a petition outlining concerns about the environmental and human rights impacts of the project, including forced displacement and inadequate compensation for affected communities.
The $10-billion investment includes drilling for oil in the Lake Albert area in northwestern Uganda and building a 1,443-kilometre (900-mile) heated pipeline to ship the crude to Tanzania’s Indian Ocean port of Tanga.
Critics argue that the pipeline will displace thousands of families, threaten water resources and wetlands in Uganda and Tanzania, and endanger vital ecosystems
Mwanzo Tv News
