Jirongo told him about the backdoor oil dealings in 2019. Museveni said the revelation prompted him to end the G-to-G arrangement with Kenya.Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni speaks to the people of Butambala during the campaign season on December 20, 2025. Photo/MuseveniUgandan President Yoweri Museveni has named a Kenyan legislator he only identifies as ‘Jirongo’ as the whistleblower who exposed the irregularities in East Africa's Government-to-Government (G-to-G) oil importation deal. According to Museveni, Jirongo, 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 said the revelation prompted him to end the G-to-G arrangement with Kenya, and begin sour...
This page contains an attributed headline and the preview text supplied through the publisher’s RSS feed. Copyright in the original reporting belongs to Citizen Digital.
