[Ugnet] {UAH} Oil economics. Numbers don't lie. No?
*Comrade Edward Mulindwa, *
*Not only you but many of us suffer, in silence, about this hollow …..
“Baganda hawking land, in London” ………. “Bakiga in New York for whatever ”………
“and a whole New Uganda Cabinet Ministry for our pampered Diaspora”…………*
*Wananchi are the least worry in all the circus !! *
*Aren’t Mineral Companies recruiting and funding all manner of irrational
activity, for them to carry on heist under cover? *
*Muteebi’s throne or the “Namulondo”, to the last dollar was paid by
Mitsubishi Corporation. *
*None of these wannabe Baganda diehards contributed a single dollar. Not
One !!*
*What does Mitsubishi want in Africa, fostering Feudal Enclaves of divide
and looting minerals ? *
* When what passes for a peoples cultural essence like “Awangaale
Ssabasajja” is stolen by the World’s crooks then we are in trouble.*
*. Ugandans have turned themselves into “Balebeesi”. I ndeed who is
funding them? Whom do they speak for and represent? Is our land safe? *
*=================================== *
*To Comrade Rahim Jabendo I say, it is at times like these that peoples’
struggles are stolen. Each of our enemies knows we are clamouring for
change, and are offering all sorts of snake oil.*
*Removing M7 is easy. *
*It even looks like his incompetency is not going to wait for us, to do him
in.*
*By all means we don’t want to be fooled, to replace M7 by a replica, for
the next thirty years.*
*So let us demand more than slogans like, “M7 has got to go”, “M7 has got
to go”. *
*We want concrete policy proposals.* *For example, while Ontario offers
more than seven pre-University Maths Subjects, for us in 1968 we cut our
A.L. Maths Curriculum and proceeded in 1970, with incredible fanfare, to
found a Makerere Faculty of Technology. Tell me the logic here. Tell me !!
*
*You cut the Maths Curriculum of the children of your country by half, and
proceed to build them a glittering Engineering School?*
*Mulago is rotting. Mr Besigye is a Medical Doctor. Why doesn’t he craft
and champion a Uganda Medical Policy Blueprint, for our use for the next
100 years. *
*So many areas in need of attention.*
* Mitayo Potosi*
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Rahim Jabendo
You cannot limit external travelling, for it is not bad or wrong, many
times we have seen these laws out of the blue thrown into society and you
have a trip that is required but some punk sat down and simply limited the
powers to travel. There are many requirements of travelling’s that you will
never list all of them, so what you do it to list the requirements to
travel, if they are satisfied then the officer travels. So what you need is
the system created to manage those travels.
Now that is the way things are done in a normal country, what is in Uganda
is different, Ugandans think that Uganda is abroad. Again go back to my
posting I did this morning, “Museveni planted a mustard seed in Nairobi” It
is caricature for opposition to think that their strength is in The
American embassy, The British embassy, the stupidity of Norbert Mao to walk
on The White house compound. The silliness of UNAA the silliness of Buganda
land board, the silliness of Bakiga organization, the silliness of Ugandans
in The Nordics, As all these organizations get created, they are created
for the owners need an air time with Ugandans in diaspora than the Ugandans
at home. Politics is always local, go home and create the policies then
turn around and sell them to the people at home for it is them that elect
you. Not me in diaspora not Gook in Kigali but my mother at home. Look at
Museveni very carefully, he is strategically at home and he manages the
votes, why not Olara Otunnu? Why is Otunu’s voice only in addressing the
press or the American embassy in Kampala or addressing Ugandans in UK? And
that is the disease eating Uganda opposition. Government officers can
travel but my God isn’t our problem today of Mengo that has The Buganda
Land Commission in UK and the Buganda conference just closing in the US?
How do they get funded? Does it make sense to hold such expenses when you
have buildings with such toilets? Langis and Acholis had every right to
create external organizations for at a time The North was closed, as soon
as the war ended, The Acholis and Langi organizations should have been
closed for you cannot operate in Uganda. And why do Bakiga need an
external organization? Is there a war in Rukungiri lately? It is the
creation of these small entities that the so called politicians in Uganda
feed on. There is a starting suggestion out here that we need to start to
target these organizations, my God we have an NRM branch in Toronto. Really
why? So you need a brand new thinking across the board not across the
government alone. I have been in this city many many years but this Buganda
Land commission, this Tabamiruka crap has not been here, all this brand new
Buganda kind of begging that I never expected Mengo to do is simply
annoying. Abaganda are not supposed to turn themselves into Balebeesi, but
under Ssabassajja Mutebi Amasiro maintenance is not a responsibility of
Baganda but UNESCO.
I cannot see that happening under Ssekabaka Mutesa. There is simply no
firkin no way you would hand Amasiro to UNESCO but Ssabassajja Mutebi
actually did.
*From:* ugandans-at-he...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
ugandans-at-he...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *rahimu jabendo
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:13 AM
*To:* ugandans-at-heart
*Cc:* Jonny Rubin; Dr.EdwardKayondo; epo...@yahoo.com; Human Rights Centre
Uganda; jn_hea...@yahoo.co.uk; WB Kyijomanyi; vincent bukenya; ACFODE Bukoto
*Subject:* Re: {UAH} Oil economics. Numbers dont lie. No?
UAHs,
We urgently need to also rationalize what we spend on e.g. things like
travels – inland or abroad. Media has been reporting clamoring at
Parliament in regard to foreign trips. For example, data visualization by
Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) shows that
Parliamentary Commission expenditure is shooting through the roof. From
sh82b in the 2008/2009 financial year, it hit sh280b in the 2010/2011
financial year and continues to grow. A deeper drill into the datasets show
that many MPs are spending tax payers’ money on foreign trips. MPs are
entitled to an allowance of sh1.4m ($550) per day spent out of the country
on official duty.
On the 21st of November 2011, the media reported that sh8.5b was allocated
to facilitate at least 300 of the 344 legislators on foreign travel for the
financial year 2011/2012. In a space of just four months, sh2.2 billion had
already been spent on MPs’ foreign travels - an average of Sh550m per
month. Whereas some MPs trips or other public officials are justified,
travels should be streamlined to national interest to avert bloating public
administration expenditure and balance our wage bill.
We need to consider reducing the number of MPs. We don't need special
interest groups in parliament anymore. May be we could just have quotas for
Women Representatives in parliament.
Similar trends are noticeable with regard to the expenditure on State
House. In FY2007/08 State House had an approved budget of UGX48.65 billion.
It ended up spending UGX66.04 billion. In FY2011/12, a budget of UGX63.64
billion was approved. By the end of the financial year, a total of UGX157
billion, almost three times what had been budgeted for had been blown up.
The first order of business, our top priority as Ugandans without any
equivocation, must be the removal of the Museveni regime. This is the
immediate and most urgent goal of our struggle. Why? Because the regime has
lost all legitimacy. It cannot be reformed...it can only be removed!
*R.J*
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