[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* =========================== 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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