Dear editor can you please publish my articles for public consumption and
reflection.
National Resistance Movements Obshchina, Mir!
To Professor Kiwanuka Ssemakula
P.M. Professor Apollo Nsibambi
V.C. Professor Balibaseka Bukyenya
Toro Kingdom MPs
Buganda Kingdom MPs
The programme for modernisation of agriculture has a Stalinist intention and
stance that is to kill off, the old village community organisation (obshchina,
mir) as an expression of NRMs fundamental change. (Read Stalinist decree of
30 June 1930).
Human being are both social and biological therefore can fundamentally change
unless we talk of a Darwinian genetic timeline i.e. evolution.
The elimination of farmers, can be interpreted as Stalinist elimination of the
kulaks, the rich farmers (peasants) as a social class and leading to the
spontaneous growth (vozglovlyat stikhiinyi) of the NRM middle class.
Exactly as in Stalinist Soviet Russia and the greatest failure of
collectivisation (sploshnaya), NRM diverted citizens attention, claiming were
helping to re-stock cattle, farms and retooling ginneries and factories
destroyed in NRM revolution hence modernising minus farmers (NRMs peasants)
cooperative union.
In Teso people are still in camps. What does region tier under a failed
decentralisation system and creation of more districts mean?
Luwero had seventeen (17) coffee and cotton processors run by farmers
themselves, today there are only two. Peoples land being bought and fenced off
by NRM party functionaries, said to be spreading commercialism and capitalistic
(read industrialisation) relations. Reality is such that farmers (peasants) are
edged out as a social class.
In principal it appears the land act can save helpless farmers but it cant as
the case is in Kiboga and Luwero!
The idea is inherent in NRM middle class (individualism -merit) ideology of
industrialisation and modernising farmers, therefore NRMs rabid sentiments
against farmers (peasants). Stalinist ideology was to industrialise the soviet
Russia by systematically eliminating rich farmers as a social class.
NRM has never told Ugandans a policy used to modernise them, the British had a
national policy of building processing industries when Buganda cooperative
union political pressure.
The programme for modernisation of agriculture has worsened Uganda Africans
conditions and poverty. Entailing, NRM had no idea about matters of Africanist
socio-economic development but rather a copied Stalinist ideology, of
self-aggrandisement and systematic terror, an ideology informed by Kyankwanzi
militarism.
Originally, rich regions have all been devastated and ever falling into
deepening poverty and misery.
Remarkably, rural eating habits have largely remained the same and in some
areas, becoming worse. In all regions of Uganda, posho (maize flour)
consumption has gone up implying staple foodstuffs, is no longer the basic food
items and production virtually ceases to exist.
Lira chicken farmers are almost collapsing.
There must be deeper ideological reasons, for NRM non-supportive measures of
the cooperative union and legislating a supportive law. Thus deliberate
fragmentation of farmers basic unifying mechanism. The Bataka Bu (party) was
a direct struggle against a typically British exploitation tool of disarming
farmers (peasants), NRM practises.
How many Uganda farmers can turn into commercial farming and how can that
happen with community support? NRM never tells you the methodology of achieving
it.
Social wealthy creation through the cooperative unions, appears to be a problem
for this government, otherwise lessons learnt from 1920 to 1955, would have
been massively supported NRM.
And NRM is a Pan-Africanist movement of sorts!
The elimination of farmers, can be interpreted as Stalinist elimination of the
kulaks, the rich farmers (peasants) as a social class and leading to the
spontaneous growth (vozglovlyat stikhiinyi) of the NRM middle class.
What actually Stalin did was to kill off wealthy peasants (Kulaks) by;
collectivisation, deportation and confiscation of their property that might be
hard to practice in Uganda, lest it leads to popular uprising. It is exactly
the same measure NRM practices with, incompetent monetarism.
NRM Programme for modernisation of agriculture has a face value of both
Stalinist and colonial sensibilities, where Uganda farmers (peasants) are
assumed incapable of marketing abilities and cooperation.
Educating the masses of farmers about cooperative unions and movements, would
offer them a degree of informed activism as a protection of their interests.
NRM is aware, activism practiced within the same communities breeds communal
political acts of defiance against NRMs sloganeering and politicking.
So National agricultural advisory services, improvised a rather peculiar paid
services providers who have to be paid to save individual ignorant peasantry!
Cooperative activities would have guaranteed farmers (peasants) independent
existence from the middle class composed of NRM parasitic middle class and
primitive Kyankwanzi cadres. NRM having killed off rich farmers social class,
political party politics is aimless and directionless only remaining as an act
of religious and ethnical assembles.
Religious and ethnical assembles are very easy to fragment and dissolve, since
spiritual needs rarely directs human survival. It human needs that direct
spiritual needs. So NRM has made sure, in the constitution there is clause
limiting such political parties in contravention of the freedom to free
association!
Cooperative unions, generate growth of leadership and professionalism through
experiences not only for marketing and processing of produce, protection of
commercial interest, bringing together diverse social groups but defines
farmers (peasants) social interest and powers that are distinctively political.
It is the same activisms that would protect NRM peasants, from vulgar
commercialism and strengthen communitarianism and also improving farmers
organisational techniques of commercial and political nature.
Historically, the middle class evolve from the working class and rich farmers
then if you exactly want the class why kill off its foundations?!
NRM is the biggest neo-colonist in Ugandan modern history and apathetic
oppressor of the African Ugandans under its ideology cautiously designed to
mask real NRM ideological intentions, covertly named modernisation.
True there is a desire to industrialise but industrialisation is not equivalent
to elimination of one social group the farmers (peasants)!
Bwanika.
Nakywesawa, Luwero
Donor Money, Conspicuous Consumption & Poverty
Eyewitnesses, observe Uganda is next to Congo-Kinshasa in consumption habits,
albeit Uganda excelling in second-hand consumption in Kampala.
Professor Ssemakula Kiwanukas article aid works well if used well as is the
case in Uganda (Monitor Sunday, 14 August 2005) was out of step.
It is difficult today, to understand what aid will works when it comes to
poverty in Uganda. Poverty problem in Uganda is an institutional to kill off
the peasant class hence industrialise it.
Uganda during monstrous regimes of Idi Amin and Obote had a functioning railway
line, albeit with low trade volumes but the railway line existed. The National
resistance movement saw it fit to bury Uganda Railways Corporation.
Uganda government today, is looking for a private investors and indeed AID
money to revamp URC. Astonishing?! And the farmers in Kasese with bag of
potatoes travel 350 km to sell it in Kampala. Government estimates puts
building a macadamised road at about shs 250 million per kilometre.
What is using aid works well if used well means, even if building roads is
one of NRM strategy to help the wretched of this country is very confusing. In
Luwero Ive not seen any better road to convince me otherwise, since what was
there in 1975, is what still exists 30 years down the road!
The above raises another question, why trade is based in Kampala as if the rest
of Uganda has no consumers?! There is deeper Ugandan problem.
I remembered, Ive got a small book written by Frederic Benham entitled
economic aid to underdevelopment countries dated 1961 when most African
nations were only getting independent.
Interestingly so, chapter 8 pg. 139 - 154 Ugandas war effort: Materials,
Governing Uganda, British Colonial Rule and its legacy by Gardner Thompson
offers another attention-grabbing same_side of the same coin about African
governments, aid and poverty.
National Resistance Movement strategy for Ugandas transformative strategy is
incompetent and narrow.
In almost every other developed country, there is an institution directed to
study African poverty and other affairs. Well as the victims dont get
concerned about the state of affairs in their respective countries.
The professor was once in charge of the state ministry responsible for Luwero.
Legend will suggest, Luwero & Nakaseke has been among the highest recipients of
aid in recent history. Yet Luwero & Nakaseke are among the poorest districts in
Uganda.
How many Ugandans are actually in gainful employment, can be debated if the
figure is not less than 0.05 of the entire population! Mobile telephony miracle
is a global trend hard to repeat anywhere.
NRM four economic pillars;- 1). Roads, 2). Universal Primary Education (UPE)
3). Water & Sanitation 4). Modernisation of Agriculture is in ridiculous.
With decentralisation, government will in principal have no business in
agriculture and UPE as public schools, as well as private schools will be
planned, organised and monitored by districts and parent education ministry.
Agriculture is supported by higher consumption standards and subsidies.
Education is so basic, that every single government have only one duty that is
to make sure education gets the hugest chunk of the national cake. Today
unfortunately, I can write with authority on the subject and tell Ugandans that
UPE does not work, and as a result it has resulted into rabid privatisation of
education! Indeed there are small children, who cant attend school because
they lack shs 3500 for what they call examination fees! (see for example:
delivering education through market forces pg. 41 44; University Education in
Uganda by A. B. K. Kasozi
Is privatisation of education making the poor poorer or richer? Preciously
because of this fact young people now graduating from virtually all
institutions have been turned into mass consumers of social capital without
production, a mass tragedy for this country of which consequence we are yet to
witness.
Another government strategy, a fifth programme is accidental, that is HIV/AIDS
that has opened floodgates for free money, and for medical research funds and
exponential growth of HIV/AIDS related NGOs.
Uganda as opposed to Cuba, the citizens, the biggest majority have not
benefited from such medical research. Retrial virus drugs are still imported
and majority (90%) sick people in this country buy medicare, if at all they
have the money to pay for it! Making them poorer besides their contribution in
taxes.
Surprisingly, doctors in Uganda are unemployed what is more telling. Couldnt
HIV/AIDS funding make medical professional and practice easier!
Water is coming to virtually all Ugandas small towns against the background
that 90% of our population is rural living in native settlements. That by
itself defeats the entire logic of the above strategy as backbone for better
healthy care.
Sadly the peasants would well benefit from good roads to reach quickly to the
said markets, I doubt as a practical researcher who has been to Nakasero, Owino
and other such markets that a native in Kasese, Bushenyi, Mbale, Kapchwora and
Arua do benefit from the government strategy.
An explanation as to how the so called war on poverty can benefit the poor in
regard to transport costs, where virtually all Ugandans produce the same thing,
low prices and total lack of government support in form of storage facilities,
subsidies and corresponding processing industry, 90% rural population that
largely depends on own produce please let me know about the secret weapon.
Modern commercialised agriculture is a disaster since the majority poor cant
afford herbicide, pesticides, animal drugs, and synthetic fertilisers. Worst of
all there are no ready markets for such produce against the background that
majority Ugandans are rural based depending on their wit and weal to feed
themselves.
Once I heard that Africans dont eat chocolates, a rather dense argument since
it is Africans who grow and produce cocoa!
There are simpler ways Uganda transformational can be solved but that will be
for another day
Bwanika.
Nakywesawa , Luwero.
Bwanika
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