@KCBGroup through @KCBUganda is among five banks that the #EACOP company announced as having provided funding have marked themselves as enablers of #ClimateChaos, environmental destruction and continued exploitation of Ugandan and Tanzanian resources for the benefit of TNCs.
KCB Bank funding displacement, funding destruction. funding death. This is not just complicit, they’re active players in environmental violence.
We will confront their headquarters. We will name and shame.
#FreeKCB11#StopEACOP#KCBComplicity
🚨 URGENT: 11 climate activists face criminal charges after @kcbbankug deceptively led them into the basement, where police waited. They peacefully delivered concerns about #EACOP, which threatens the Ramsar sites. #FreeTheKCB11#StopEACOP
.@KCBGroup, understand that EACOP promises only to deepen the crisis of climate collapse, exacerbate droughts, floods & extreme weather events that disproportionately affect African communities, who've contributed least to the crisis but suffer its worst impacts. #StopEACOP
FACT: Over 40 major banks have refused to finance #EACOP due to environmental and human rights concerns. Yet @KCBGroup is all in—and ARRESTING those who speak up. #FreeTheKCB11#StopEACOP
11 activists arrested for standing up against EACOP!
@KCBGroup 's funding of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline threatens lives, nature, and democracy.
We demand justice!
#StopEACOP#KickTotalOutOfAfrica
.@kcbbankug has marked itself as an enabler of climate chaos, environmental destruction & the continued exploitation of Uganda & Tanzania’s natural resources for the benefit of @TotalEnergies at the expense of local communities by choosing to invest in #EACOP#FreeKCB11
FACT: Over 40 major banks have refused to finance #EACOP due to environmental and human rights concerns. Yet KCB is all in— and aiding in ARRESTING those who speak up. #FreeTheKCB11#StopEACOP@KCBGroup@KCBUganda
.@KCBGroup claims to be environmentally responsible while financing a pipeline that will emit 379 million tonnes CO2e (MtCO2e) for the full value chain of emissions & when activists ask they reconsider they have them arrested. #FreeTheKCB11#StopEACOP
Breaking: A group of envitomental defenders belonging to @Studenteacop have been brutally arrested at @KCBGroup@KCBUganda while in a peaceful protest delivering their petition against the banks funding of #EACOP project.
#StopEACOP#JustTransition
URGENT: 11 climate activists face criminal charges after KCB Bank deceptively led them into the basement, where police waited. They were peacefully delivering concerns about #EACOP, which threatens the Ramsar sites. #FreeTheKCB11#StopEACOP@stopEACOP
In Kampala Uganda, 11 peaceful youth—#StopEACOP defenders—walked into KCB Bank Uganda with one goal: to deliver a letter urging the bank to divest from the destructive EACOP pipeline. They never walked out freely.
We request @KCBGroup to #FreeTheKCB11#InSolidarity
KCB Bank finances #EACOP pipeline = 100,000+ people displaced, vital ecosystems destroyed. When activists brought a letter voicing concerns, KCB's response? Deception and arrest. RT to demand #FreeTheKCB11 and #StopEACOP@stopEACOP
🚨We're having an X(Twitter) storm today from 12pm EAT to raise awareness about the decision by @KCBGroup to get involved in the controversial #EACOP project — and their role in aiding the ARREST of the 11 #StopEACOP activists who speak up against the project. #FreeTheKCB11
Breaking dozens of activists have been arrested in a non-violent protest march to @KCBGroup bank to protest the banks decision of providing debt funding to EACOP. They are currently detained at Kiira road police station, no one should be arrested for rejecting EACOP
#stopEACOP