Urban Planning, Economics of a Psychiatric City
- At times one wonders, recent pronouncement in Uganda parliament were such that the government of Uganda, discovered donor money was creating over supply of money which cost Uganda 25 billion annually to suck out of the economy through treasury bills - conclusion Government does not need that money via donor founds apart from for roads, railways, schools etc. - Fellow citizen what is new about the above?! - This is an old 1930’s Keynesian theory of full employment. Increase money supply hence consumption followed by industrial production, which money comes back to the state through taxation - what did Uganda government and its marionettes in Bank of Uganda discover. Economist!! - Most probably what is strange is that the money is siphoned by four-wheel drive consumers, government officials and does not reach NRM peasants! - Exactly in the same way they discovered Uganda had no data about donor funds some time back which necessitated the same donor to create another project in bank of Uganda to track the same funds! - To their prise - MP have now a development fund - what will district council do? You wonder - money supply!!! - Are you surprised - that is Uganda. - A preacher kicks her stiletto shoes aside seems they’re too high for locomotion when preaching. - All of a sudden, a spirit, she calls a woman in the congregation and a miracle happens - “get these shoes and all your problems will be solved”. - The receipt get a half a million shoe, shakes like hell and immediately collapses on ground - welcome to a new religion, prophets and prophetess and get rich philosophy. - As if that is not enough - another woman caught unawares by a prophetess miracle, is shouted up caught in an inscrutability of fate and longing - receives a handbag to her worth. - She jumps up and down caught between joy and a speculate event - a miracle has happened! She also collapses on ground - before she gathers herself back to her seat with a rare bag! What a prise - Become a pastor and be converted into Uganda’s most rich. Note you must learn shouting amplitudes. - I thought he was very sick - he wakes up though, from a concrete pavement in smattering heat, scattering rags and polythene bags aside, raises his hand into an empty air and a dim voice begs for one shilling. - Around him; rotten paws, mangoes, maggots filled food and urine - what I can’t tell is where all Kampala psychiatric patients ease themselves when nature calls? - Indeed, I have seen the man in that very same spot many times - behind the fence near Crane Bank parking lot, come rain or sunshine. - You might think this is all what meets the eye, - But thousands of Karamojongs are languishing with their toddlers in Kisenyi, Nakivubo, Sheraton, Kampala road or anywhere they can scavenge a grain of maize to force into empty bellies. - How these mothers and their children travel all the way from Karamoja to Kampala is still a mystery to me. - To judge a shape of a nation state, traditional or modern, it’s primarily imperative to gauge the state of mind of her people, the society and their social, environmental and mental healthy. - Ugandans are known of their friendly personalities NOT by accident - however this might be a myth given to the state of urban organisation and management. - While the lame and invalid - bake themselves in the tropical sunshine begging for a coin, neither government nor Kampala City Council seems to have a clue of what is taking place. - Indeed they do - but they can afford more money to politics. - A seemingly unknown phenomenon is spreading all over the country, more yet to come when frustration sinks in among the rural -urban migrant. - A Rastafarian lady named Senkebejje sung a song - “ Ah God if you can buy me a Mercedes Benz…” - Undeniably, I have witnessed something rare - I hope you also do. - Fat mini bearing girls from western Uganda in droves are turning to Enguli (crude Walagi) distilling and retail trade. - First I thought I was just being particular. No it is the same everywhere in this City and its suburbs via The Philosophy of Money - Simmel George. - Young men from the central and western region, the alcohol consumers (usually young men) are likewise supporting the money minting profession. - Notice the above trade used to be of the Nakyeyombekeddes, (mature Baganda women divorcee and widowed) - the transformation is so stark to be overlooked. - The number of invalid is on the raise into the city, at Imperial Hotel shops, one good evening I meet a former bodaboda rider, begging me for help, he lost a leg and medical bills emptied his saving. - He is no longer a man- he explains tears flooding his eyes. - It’s not all - Congo, Luwero, Acoli you name it has also brought their population of invalid with equally the same momentum. - I might be wrong - however looking at the rural economy I doubt if there is anything left. - Coffee from which people used to bag a dime, everywhere is a mirage, vanilla is a dream gone sour. What else? Bodaboda. - True Uganda’s agro exports are skyrocketing but who is exporting? - Enter Uganda’s idealistic rich - work means earning by working less. - I hire a man to do some work - following days comes almost an office clerk prompting to ask if he is the one to do the work. Better dressed than me for a dirty job. - Uganda is an interesting country, men and women get up early, in suits and ties with very shiny shoes and assume by virtual of the appearance money comes to them. - A road worker, a masonry or member or parliament there is therefore no difference. 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