Tullow has distanced itself from the revelations attributed to it over two Uganda ministers who allegedly received a bribe to push for ENI’s bid to buy Heritage Oil’s assets late last year. Tim O’Hanlon, Tullow’s Vice President for Africa, is said to have told the US ambassador to Uganda, Jerry Lanier, that Amama Mbabazi, the Minister of Security, and Hilary Onek, the Minister of Energy, received money from Italian oil firm, ENI, in a bid to buy Heritage Oil’s assets, according to documents released by whistleblower website, WikiLeaks.
However, O’Hanlon, now says that his private discussions on the issue were based on rumours circulating around Kampala, and that he has no reason to believe there was any truth in them. During the private conversation with Lanier, O’Hanlon said Mbabazi was ENI’s ‘patron’ in Uganda.
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