Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has named the late Cyrus Jirongo as the whistleblower who exposed the irregularities in East Africa’s Government-to-Government (G-to-G) oil importation deal.
According to Museveni, the late Jirongo, a former minister under President Moi’s government, told him about the backdoor oil dealings in 2019.
“It was a Kenyan Senator called Jirongo who told me this around 2019. I immediately tasked the then Minister Irene Muloni to sort out that mess,” said the Ugandan leader in a tweet on Sunday evening.
The revelations followed Museveni’s exposé on Thursday, in which he said Uganda had previously procured petroleum products through intermediaries in Kenya, rather than directly from the government as outlined in the G-to-G framework.
“The Republic of Uganda was buying petroleum products through middlemen in Kenya. Can you imagine that? And the person who woke me up first was a senator from Kenya,” Museveni said during the groundbreaking ceremony for a 320-million-litre petroleum storage terminal in Mpigi District, Uganda.
Museveni has since attributed the expose to the late Jirongo, who was not a senator in Kenya but had previously served as Minister for Rural Development under Moi’s government in 2002. He also served as Member of Parliament for Lugari Constituency in 2007 – 2013 before unsuccessfully contesting a Senate position in 2013.
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