Uganda, May 8 -- The media plays a crucial role in ensuring that Uganda's oil and gas resources are managed in the best way possible. The best way being that these resources create value for Uganda and its citizens while leaving the communities and environment as good as or better than it was before the development of oil and gas.

The media plays its role by informing the public about what is happening in Uganda's oil and gas sector. The sector is currently at the development stage with a high volume of infrastructural development and resource utilisation -human and monetary, happening.

A lot of what is happening is likely to miss the attention of the public if the media does not report on it. This is especially considering the mounting...