Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania
Good People from West Nile, I have read with great concern the issues raised in districtmania. It points to a malaise that needs to be urgently addressed by well intentioned sons and daughters of WestNile. The time for that redemption is NOW. The criteria for the creation of Districts is clear (other extraordinary factors notwithstanding) and I don't want to labour the point. Look at the case of Bushenyi where the District gave birth to 4 new districts. You will be amazed at how the people of Bushenyi are progressing despite the fragmentation. Good Folks, unless we start looking at real developmental issues and the bigger picture, we shall fail to develop our region and posterity will judge as very harshly. There could have been instances of clash of egos, cheap populism, local politics, hatred, malice and the like, but we need to forget the past and progresseively chart the way forward. We shall not develop if we are divided and most especially if the people who are fueling divisionism are the current stock of elites like us. For your information, my mother originates from Terego County and my father from Maracha. I got my first dose of Primary Education (P.1 to P.4) at Alua Primary School in Ayivu County and my wife comes from Terego County. What do I gain from divisionism arising out of the creation of districts? Let us unite against the negative forces that are trying to drive a rift among us. Long Live the good people of West Nile. From: Aluma Adam aluma...@yahoo.com To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Sent: Thu, 5 August, 2010 22:28:15 Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania Dear All, It is not true at all in my considered view that the creation of a district does bring division among the local people, how???! This line of argument is devoid of technical and administrative sense and science, otherwise, the Parliament of Uganda would not approve such Districts. The original creation of Moyo, Nebbi and Arua in WestNile never caused division that most of us who see the archives have been able to reveal. It is bad politics, weak personalities and cheap leadership that are the real problem here and must be dealt with head on with the sobriety it deserves. A political 'mix' of issues but narrow objectivity would at best yield a cousin to anarchy.. Keep the thread running. Adam Aluma --- On Thu, 8/5/10, banduga ismail bani...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: banduga ismail bani...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 12:46 PM My brother Drani, There was no other way to express this than you have done. For those who are not in Arua, they have not seen what you have seen. Thanks for having had the heart to let them know as an insider. Who does not know that you are one of the seasoned MCs in the greater Arua district with a strong command of the both the english language and the lugbara dialect? For those who believed that creation of districts at almost every sub county was a way of bringing services closure to the people, be assured that it is not the case. It is a hectic plan to disenfranchise the once united and strong people. What it simply means is that be occuppied with your local hatred so that you don't have the strength to fight any external war. Let us be careful and resist this cancer before it infiltrates other upcoming ventures like the public university. How we do that, I don't know. God save us, Ismail From: Andua Drani anduadr...@yahoo.co.uk To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Sent: Thu, 5 August, 2010 18:11:27 Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania Dear all, I have followed the debate on the District status of Maracha and the Presidents visit keenly The comments particularly by Vasco Oguzua and Patrick Aviku were to the point. For those who dont know me, I work in the District Local Government of Arua where I have served for the last 15 years. The experiences of division, sectarianism and hatred through which we are going now as a result of what I call districtmania is very disheartening and quite often frightening to me. It is in stark contrast with my experiencesof the years before we went into the frenzy of creating the Districts. Unity is breaking down like a pack of cards. Hatred has taken up the place of love and cooperation among, hitherto friends, schoolmates and classmates- all in the name of protecting interests of one's District/'people'. The situation is painful to some of us who chersihed the ideals of unity and friendship. The situation makes me feel ashaamed of what is goin on. Besides, what Patrick has stated ( two friends been separated), some of the worst scenarios have been played out in our local environment. Today, even among us
Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania
My people, Let me ask; 1. Is it true that in the majority of cases the key reason for asking for a district is to bring services closer to the people? 2. Doesn't no. 1 above therefore show that the lacking services and the locations where they lack are actually known? 3. If it is possible to marshal the necessary budgets to finance new districts in record time, would it not be wiser to first use these budgets to build/provide the lacking services in the lacking areas then maybe the district can follow? One only needs to visit some of these new districts in order to realise the gaps. I know of one where to this day, civil servants practically work for 2 or three days a week!!! Tuesday - Thursday morning. The rest of the time they retreat to their parent districts where they have investments and homes. It will take a while for some pf these places to actually get the services they need. Ez On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Aluma Adam aluma...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear All, It is not true at all in my considered view that the creation of a district does bring division among the local people, how???! This line of argument is devoid of technical and administrative sense and science, otherwise, the Parliament of Uganda would not approve such Districts. The original creation of Moyo, Nebbi and Arua in WestNile never caused division that most of us who see the archives have been able to reveal. It is bad politics, weak personalities and cheap leadership that are the real problem here and must be dealt with head on with the sobriety it deserves. A political 'mix' of issues but narrow objectivity would at best yield a cousin to anarchy.. Keep the thread running. Adam Aluma --- On *Thu, 8/5/10, banduga ismail bani...@yahoo.co.uk* wrote: From: banduga ismail bani...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 12:46 PM My brother Drani, There was no other way to express this than you have done. For those who are not in Arua, they have not seen what you have seen. Thanks for having had the heart to let them know as an insider. Who does not know that you are one of the seasoned MCs in the greater Arua district with a strong command of the both the english language and the lugbara dialect? For those who believed that creation of districts at almost every sub county was a way of bringing services closure to the people, be assured that it is not the case. It is a hectic plan to disenfranchise the once united and strong people. What it simply means is that be occuppied with your local hatred so that you don't have the strength to fight any external war. Let us be careful and resist this cancer before it infiltrates other upcoming ventures like the public university. How we do that, I don't know. God save us, Ismail -- *From:* Andua Drani anduadr...@yahoo.co.uk *To:* A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net *Sent:* Thu, 5 August, 2010 18:11:27 *Subject:* Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania Dear all, I have followed the debate on the District status of Maracha and the Presidents visit keenly The comments particularly by Vasco Oguzua and Patrick Aviku were to the point. For those who dont know me, I work in the District Local Government of Arua where I have served for the last 15 years. The experiences of division, sectarianism and hatred through which we are going now as a result of what I call *districtmania is *very disheartening and quite often frightening to me. It is in stark contrast with my experiencesof the years before we went into the frenzy of creating the Districts. Unity is breaking down like a pack of cards. Hatred has taken up the place of love and cooperation among, hitherto friends, schoolmates and classmates- all in the name of protecting interests of one's District/'people'. The situation is painful to some of us who chersihed the ideals of unity and friendship. The situation makes me feel ashaamed of what is goin on. Besides, what Patrick has stated ( two friends been separated), some of the worst scenarios have been played out in our local environment. Today, even among us who are the staff serving in these Districts, friendships have broken over creation of Districts. I can comfirm that I have personally lost some of my very good friends with whom I have worked closely over this matter of District creation who have are so excited over this issue. I am sure Ezaga was innocently lured into being an MC for the occasion. There are many things, I am sure if he knew them, he would have thought twice before accepting the 'offer of appoinment of MC'.However, as way of bringing us together, he was right to be there The situation is only fair for many of you members of the westnilenet who are not working in these Districts. Many cricicisms were levelled
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Re: [WestNileNet] GUBAZI MICHAEL
Dear Sam, I am still away, but might join you incase I arrive in time and in good shape. Regards On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Sam Ejibua eji...@yahoo.com wrote: On behalf of Gubazi Michael (Younger brother to Mr. Aloro Copperfield) and family members, I would like to invite all friends and friends of friends for the 1st meeting towards his traditional marriage on Sunday 8th August 2010 at Naalya (Hill view - Jose's place) starting at 5pm. RSVP 0772515648 ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/westnilenet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___ ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/westnilenet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania
Dear all, I read these emails with alot of disappointment. However, I would like to thank Andua for the truth that he has spoken, for those who always dont like truth, it will be a pain. I think all of us should understand that we have a REAL big problem in westnile right now and these are centered around greed and corruption. Otherwise, it would have been easy to understand the political gimmick played by giving the so-called Maracha -Terego district that opened this wound. Many people felt this would be a chance for them to eat. Leaders dont talk about serving people, they talk about eating. That so and so have eaten. The Maracha-Terego district political gimmick found this going on already in Arua and it took advantage. Main reason why when Terego was told to come back to Arua district, it almost became a war but I am sure it still will. Many people still dont understand why the RDC does things the way he does them in Arua and nobody bothers and he is government representative in the district. Does it mean what we see in him is what the government is? For those who have powers to change this situation, they better help. For my brothers and sisters coming from Terego and Maracha, I should think that there is no need to continue fighting, hating and talking all sorts of things against each other. The district has been given to Maracha and to me it is very fine. If a district is a rocket science that will change Maracha, we wait to see. When a district was given to Yumbe and Koboko, the same problem came up but late Ayume in his wisdom decided the district be given to Yumbe and Koboko would get a chance another time and this solved the problem. Unfortunately our two brothers didnt think of this example. I worked in Yumbe but didnt see the rocket science brought by giving Yumbe district status. As Andua said, the leaders are still running around to look for schools in Kampala for their children and getting health services elsewhere. For your information, numbers of districts increased but funding for health services didnt increase and I am sure for other services too. So how we expect services to improve in the new districts is unknown to me. How the poor people will therefore benefit from these ditricts is also unclear to me. Yes a few people will get jobs but this may end up getting them good schools for their children, better cars and good houses instead of serving the communities. The politics now is about where to eat from, it is no longer about serving people. People have to sale their integrity, kill their brothers and sisters so long us it lands them on money. So we shall see this trend worsening in this biting poverty and this is a deliberate plan. Unless we understand where all these plans are coming from, we shall never help this situation. Christine From: Sam Ejibua eji...@yahoo.com To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 11:11:31 AM Subject: [WestNileNet] Districtimania Dear All, As we comment on Mr. Andua's well espoused narration, I would like to look at otherwise obvious issues that may have been a precusor to some of these occurences. 1. Isnt it true that the will of the people of West Nile has been infiltrated to the point that seeds of division, hatred, envy, jelousy, greed and individualism has been sowed among us that we now turn our guns against each other? 2. Isnt it also true that as the government propaganda machine is carrying out its schemes, we have allowed our leaders and some of our very self to continue using the meagre resources we have to promote the agenda that devides us? 3. Who are we waiting for to put an end to this? Our pride, identity and destiny as a people is being viewed with mockery and therefore no one will come and change the status quo unless we get back and re-awaken our very self.No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path Over to you... Ejibua Sam --- On Thu, 8/5/10, Andua Drani anduadr...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Andua Drani anduadr...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Districtimania To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 8:11 AM Dear all, I have followed the debate on the District status of Maracha and the Presidents visit keenly The comments particularly by Vasco Oguzua and Patrick Aviku were to the point. For those who dont know me, I work in the District Local Government of Arua where I have served for the last 15 years. The experiences of division, sectarianism and hatred through which we are going now as a result of what I call districtmania is very disheartening and quite often frightening to me. It is in stark contrast with my experiencesof the years before we went into the frenzy of creating the Districts. Unity is breaking down like a pack of cards.
