Lack of job opportunities affects PAPs livelihoods

Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 | By

Many community members in the EACOP affected areas had hopes in securing jobs from the project but few were employed.

Nyamahunge Milius, one of the Project Affected Persons (PAPs) for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) says they face job scarcity due to lost livelihoods from land acquisition, which has reduced their access to agricultural land and thus their ability to earn income. 

However, EACOP and its partners are implementing livelihood restoration programs, including vocational training and provision of start-up kits, to equip us particularly youth with practical skills for self-employment most of us are left behind.

Nyamahunge says government promised thousands of jobs and local investment surprisingly all was given away to foreign investors who have neglected to give them jobs.

“I expectations that oil would bring economic development but it has hindered our livelihoods since we lost our land which was used to be for farming and it was compensated with little money,” she says.

She thanked NAPE for training them by proving skills of good farming, making local mats and others.