...[S]ome people from the oil-rich Buliisa district have started mobilizing support for the idea to secede from Bunyoro. Currently, the kingdom covers Hoima, Kibaale, Masindi, Kiryandongo and Buliisa districts. The Bagungu, an ethnic group residing in Buliisa district and some parts of Hoima and Masindi, want to break away from Bunyoro and form their own kingdom...They have already selected a 15-member team to push for the breakaway, citing marginalisation under Bunyoro...Stephen Biraahwa Mukitale, the Buliisa county MP, agrees that the Bagungu people have been marginalized, but he rejects the push for secession from Bunyoro. “The truth is that, we need to protect the Bagungu culture and the Bagungu people. I’m a Mugungu original; I know we have been marginalised but not by Bunyoro kingdom but by colonialists and the NRM government that I serve,” Mukitale said. [refers to CNOOC]