[WestNileNet] "Go Hang"? What Service To The Public Is That?
"Go Hang"? What Service To The Public Is That? What is this increasingly abusive verbosity by so called Public Relations professionals? When the Media Center tells the clergy to "Go hang!" as mentioned in the Daily Monitor last week, or some worse utterance from other state Press Officers, doesn't this warrant disciplinary action? I thought we had an appraisal system that checks civil servants performance and conduct in service delivery. Aren't grave pronouncements such as this one, to Ugandan citizens whom the official is serving, supposed to be reprimanded? An organization like PRAU (Public Relations Association of Uganda) also needs to defend the profession when standards of public decency by it's members have literally gone to the dogs. Actually apologies and punitive administrative measures prescribed by the code of conduct for public servants are called for here. Sincerely, what added value are insults to service delivery? No where else have I heard professionals utter that much trash per PR mouth per annum than in Uganda's civil service. In stark contrast to these officials, the police and the military spokespersons are the most diplomatic yet they handle the same, and even more sensitive national security topics. Most government officials are diplomatic and have thereby been more effective in serious public communications in the media, parliament or with citizens generally. So isn't it that substandard persons are constantly abusing citizens they are supposed to serve? Thereby increasing unnecessary social antagonisms? ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ 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] TERM LIMITS: WHO IS IT ABOUT?
OK! LET ME REPEAT THIS. Restoring or lifting Uganda's Presidential term limits ISN'T about Museveni or any other individual. It's SQUARELY about Uganda and its hardworking citizens. What does the country actually need? Surely MORE guarantees of peace and security for OUR own prosperity that we actually work hard for ourselves. Can there ever be enough assurances of peace? But that's EXACTLY what term limits are: A long term extra peace insurance for Ugandans. A tested principle that guarantees a swiftly and unquestionable handover from one elected civilian to another, and therefore creating the culture of handing over governance peacefully after a specified time. Those are the arguments for term limits when they were first written in the 1995 constitution by the Constituent Assembly. Do we need to table them again? It also puts a seal on the incumbency advantage which is an undisputed reality. People can change but a wise law protects the peace. More importantly, term limits are a tool allowing our country to achieve an important milestone: Peaceful handover/transfer of power is the last big hurdle in Uganda's democratization process. This so that the people never have to suffer with any future thugs fighting for state power. Time limits exist in any activity: football, office hours, planting season, playing time for children and retirement for the old. Our very lives are limited in time. It is legacies that continue far in the future. And ensuring presidential term limits are written in the constitution is such a legacy. Chaos is surely coming within the next ten years if we aren't careful about this matter. Has Uganda EVER crossed the "peaceful democratic handover" hurdle/bottleneck yet? So what are our so-called educated politicians waiting for to complete the democracy they claim they ushered in Uganda? Written by Hussein J. L. Amin ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ 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] What's Your Say?
Forumists Someone sent me this attachment. Made my weekend. Lol What's your say? ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ 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] "CIVIL WAR"? HOW WESTERN MEDIA PEDDLES LIES.
CIVIL WAR? HOW THE WESTERN MEDIA PEDDLES LIES. "Uganda is a poor country held back by civil war, corruption and tribal tensions...". - Matt Slate BBC "journalist" yesterday (2/4/2015) while discussing Ugandan athlete Moses Kipsiro's woes with sports authorities. Civil war? This Western "journalist" is wierd. Smiles as a gentil for us then once back home, he trashes the country with outright falsehoods that he circulates globally. Honestly, what civil war is there today? Like they did about Amin, soon he might start saying "ahundred thousand victims have so far died" from his non-existent conflict. But this Kipsiro issue also is now getting way out of control. m.bbc.com/sport/athletics/32155717 ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ 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. ___
