Heritage Oil has last week denied any complicity in poaching or that any of their staff would be involved in the illegal activity, as alleged by a park staff at Murchison Falls National Park, who last week claimed that there was evidence of increased poaching around the camp set up by oil workers. However, no hard evidence was presented at the time and the company management refuted the allegations in the strongest terms, saying ‘our staff are too busy working than poaching game’.
The company had sought to retain a workers camp inside the park area for swift access to the test drilling sites by their staff at day break, but has apparently now agreed to re-locate the camp to an area just outside the Bugungu gate, where they seem to have acquired land for the purpose from a private owner.
Sources from within Heritage, speaking to this correspondent on condition of anonymity, also challenged UWA to produce evidence and arrest and prosecute culprits, but not blame Heritage as a convenient scapegoat for anything which might go wrong elsewhere.
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