Lugemwa:
Mu7 is a hypocrite as usual. Uganda needs to get ride of leaders like Mu7 whose minds are still hosts to the inferior colonial mentality. Mu7 has been for long blamming Uganda's economic, technological, and scientific failures on colonialists and neo-imperialism. What he can not fix in his brain is that it is not the former colonialists or neo-imperialism but rather our leaders sufferings from colonial mentalities as a result of the imperialism legacy.
Mu7 like other leaders before him think and thought that the only way to improve our economy is by exporting graduates or food to Europe and America. He reminds me of our leaders before Mu7 who based the Ugandan economy on exporting coffee, tobacco, etc to Europe! Mu7 and leaders before him all suffer from deep inferiority colonial mentalities.
Uganda is very capable of establishing an independent economy even though they say trade is good. We need to develop independent trade with the outside world and put a stop to this dependent trade we are suffering from, which is killing our economy.
How can Uganda build an economy dependent on the Ugandan society without Europe or America?? For how long will it take Ugandans to get over their inferiority colonial mentality?? How long will this time of recovery take??
A good example of how this stupid mentality has engulfed our leaders is the the Tri-Star Appareal. The gov't having had the promise of 'exporting clothes to America', it gave $ 6 million to that company instead of injecting that money into our Local All Ugandan Katwe Inventors to submit their inventions into products markectable to the local-Ugandan economy, and thus getting our economy going. But our non-thinkers were only thinking about revenue profits over building our economy. We all know this plays hand in hand but Ugandan interests should come first.
Tri-Star Appareal is to "exporting clothes to America and Europe", - as - Ugandan Universities are to "produce graduate nurses who are marketable to Europe and other continents". I guess we can all see where our economy is heading with such non-thinking leaders. As long as we continue to kill our own local developments and inventions in search for something we will never have (foreign developments and inventions), our economy is going nowhere. The gap between the rich and the poor is damned to expand.
Zakoomu R.
Lugemwa FN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Science A Must For Africa - Museveni
New Vision (Kampala)
February 2, 2004
Posted to the web February 2, 2004
Simon Mugenyi
Kampala
President Yoweri Museveni has stressed that science and technology is a must for African societies if they have to free themselves from the bondage of domination and backwardness.
Museveni (right) was addressing graduands at the 10th graduation ceremony of Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) on Saturday.
Museveni, who was speaking as a visitor, said science constituted the basis of development, transformation, security and sovereignty of Uganda and Africa.
He, however, said science could not adequately be promoted without sufficient remuneration to scientists.
Last week education minister Dr. Khiddu Makubuya was quoted to have said that university students would soon be required to do sciences in their first year at the university to raise and sustain the quality of education.
Museveni called for a stop to brain drain of scientists who leave the country for better-paying jobs.
He said scientists would be retained by adequate remuneration.
He called on universities to produce locally and internationally market-oriented graduates.
Museveni was glad that MUST had started producing graduate nurses, who are marketable in Europe and other continents.
He also urged universities to research on relevant areas including music and linguistic aspects.
Earlier, Museveni installed Professor Raphael Owor as the new Chancellor of MUST and congratulated him upon his appointment.
He thanked the 227 graduands for their success.
FN Lugemwa
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