Paul Ssemaluulu
I apologize for having misunderstood you.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul ssemaluulu
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 2:35 AM
To: ugandans-at-heart; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; G_NET; [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} Just another article on Air Uganda: But who cares?
Dear Mr Mulindwa, there you go again misquoting me that I talked about
grounding bridges. Please do not show your ignorance as quoted below. What I
was talking about is a tester. A quick search gives the following explanation
about what a bridge megger is:
A bridge megger can be used for resistance measurement and fault location It is
so known because it measures high (mega-ohm) resistances, and uses a bridge
circuit, which is suited to this type of measurement.
Actually, when you want to internalize what we debate here, read the submission
twice so that you do not embarrass yourself like this again.
"Paul Ssemaluulu has talked about grounding bridges, how many Ugandans actually
walk across a bridge in Uganda and worry if it was grounded? "
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The Lord Bless You
Paul Ssemaluulu
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Inefficiencies and corruption happen because those in charge, directly
or indirectly, unwittingly or deliberately, grant permission for them to
happen-Onyango Obbo
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of his or her profession should be severely disciplined and ultimately
removed from the membership of that profession in order to preserve its
name,purity and integrity-Justice Kanyeihamba
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <[email protected]> wrote:
Hannah Ogwapiti
When I posted this cancellation on UAH how many comments did we get? Nada.
Let’s move on because what bother Ugandans is how can we remove Museveni out of
power for the moment we remove him we build a democratic government. The fools
do not know that the system protecting Ugandans from thunder was looted and
they don’t even care.
I am one of those Ugandans that go for very minor details, I went to Uganda
when everyone in this forum was complaining about load shedding, there is power
here and there is no power there and so and so and so sees power once a week. I
did not worry about power going and coming, what I actually did was to throw a
meter in a meter box for I needed to see what kind of power shows up when there
is no loading shedding. In a day I tested that meter five separate times and I
picked the meter at random. In the five times I tested that meter it gave me 5
separate readings. From as high as 270 volts to as low as 40 volts, that meter
has to read between 220V and 240v. Now you have to realize that I am measuring
exactly what is coming off the grid. That variance is a very huge problem
larger than load shedding for it means that the company sending power is having
a problem sending it consistently but when it sends it out what you get in your
socket is total crap. Ugandans are not at the level of testing these systems to
this level they are complaining of why we have load shedding.
Paul Ssemaluulu has talked about grounding bridges, how many Ugandans actually
walk across a bridge in Uganda and worry if it was grounded? And I so remember
well when Amin tried to negotiate with the Catholic church to ground the
parishes in Northern Uganda. And this was of great value to save the people.
The church said we will worry about it, Amin was worried that many will bring
their sons in those parishes to be molested by the priests and they will be
bolted. A kid was put on a Jeep to go North with a single mission, go in and
come back only after you see that all parishes have been grounded. He drove
North with a single message, I am going to Arua I am coming back in a week if
this God damn parish is not grounded I am going to call on Kisuule to blow it
up. He departs. Now why were parishes up North targeted? When you drove all way
from Kigumba Gulu Kitgum or to Arua, there were no tall buildings, most of what
they had were thatched houses, Catholic parishes were the high buildings in the
region. Gwokto as a kid used to frequent it with his mother his in-laws and
his step farther. To Amin’s rightly reasoning, Gwokto had a more chance to be
blown up by thunder while being molested by a God damn priest than when sitting
in his home that was a thatched house. Because Amin had a value to Gwokto’ s
life, grounding Cathedrals in the North became mandatory. The kid on a jeep
drove back through all of them and they had obeyed the field marshal’s
instruction, Kisuule was never required. When you drive through the region and
look at the parish buildings that are old with tile roofs, the flat piece of
copper you see on the side of the roof is not a wireless system for the priest
to talk to God, Iddi Amin installed it to save Gwokto’ s life from thunder.
What is fasting is that come 2014 Gwokto is going after Iddi Amin worse than he
is going after Hussein Amin. Now do you get a clue why Museveni leaves the
twerps in Bundibugyo to be mesmerized in a very slow and perpendicular agony?
Eby’Uganda bya’Mpunna nga gwebagamba munange, kale no mubite bambi!!!!!!!!
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hannah Ogwapiti
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 6:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: {UAH} Just another article on Air Uganda: But who cares?
Just another article on Air Uganda: But who cares?
It’s not clear just how much was risked by passengers flying on the now
grounded Air Uganda. Its even possible we shall never know. Passenger safety
has not made it past the concern for jobs and profitability that have so far
dominated the conversation about Air Uganda. There is a pattern in Uganda and
other African countries where domestic regulators are weaker than the
constituencies they regulate. It is that story of how the civil service is so
perforated by patronage, bribery and a loss of mission therefore, that it would
be irrational to expect regulators to perform as expected. In other words,
assume the worst. Thus when Air Uganda was asked to ground its operations
that’s precisely what I did. Assume in this case the very worst.
Since then some of my fears have been aided by whispers at Entebbe. One
journalist (who is yet to write the story) told me there is documentation of no
less than 19 serious incidents on the record of Air Uganda. [ a good story on
this can be found here}
A more trusted source put the situation like this “ ICAO [the International
Civil Aviation Organisation) gave the government two choices. Ground Air Uganda
(and Uganda Air Cargo) or we shut down Entebbe Airport”. That’s deadly serious,
don’t you think? It had the finality of those Expiry Date stamps in the
medicine cabinet. Little of this however has trickled to the public debate.
Maybe it’s understandable. Few people fly and when disasters happen, however
tragic few die in comparison to the say war and disease.
Aviation is one of those industries that depend almost entirely on guaranteeing
freedom from error (I once flew Precision Air to Dare salaam all the way
thinking how wrong the name was for all the mishaps on the way). So I find the
way a country runs can be deduced from the way its airports and aviation ports
run. The more efficient, the more serious the country and vice versa. It’s
probably a blessing that whatever safety concerns regulators had have not come
to life (no pun intended).
The airline denies it put passengers at risk and CAA has refused to state
publicly the nature of the infractions, which caused Air Uganda’s license to be
withdrawn.
The public debate on safety however has not been encouraging. In parliament,
politicians from both sides of the aisle shot down the Works Minister, named
Abraham Byandala, when he attempted to educate the House on the safety issues
at the heart of the withdrawal of Air Uganda’s license.
Not even the recent flood of terrible news from the global aviation industry or
Uganda’s own record has caused pause over the tension between people and
profits. Not long ago several Ugandan military helicopters enroute to Somalia
crashed in nearby Kenya what was widely concluded as an avoidable tragedy
occasioned by poor decision-making at the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Air Force.
The official report is unlikely to see the light of day but talk around this
embarrassment is that the army focused its attention not on processes but
rather on strategy. Its not very clear what the CAA had to do with it or what
their relationship is with army aviation operations.
No proper inquiry or public debate followed. Not even on behalf of the
servicemen and their families who bore the brunt of the tragedy. The other day
a rather bizarre incident occupied the newspapers and TV stations. An American
aircraft made an emergency landing on a public road “ because it had run out of
fuel”. Luckily no crash, but once again there was little debate about public
safety and the role of CAA. Locals have made the plane a tourist attraction
trooping to have their pictures taken. Several TV stories focused on how the
plane was affecting the neighborhood, creating opportunities for one woman’s
food businesses and scaring away customers of the traditional healer whose
shack was been shunned as if the plane and its modernity had a transcendental
effect on the ancient charms of Mityana.
There is something dark and uncomfortable about Uganda’s attempts to “be like
the rest” and paint the sky with its black, red and blue national colors.
Politicians and civil servants in the wake of Air Uganda fiasco (not to be
confused with Uganda Airlines) have revived this fiction that Uganda needs once
again a thriving national carrier. There is nothing wrong with this ambition.
But the last decade has shown Uganda’s regulatory environment is a major
stumbling block.
In 2007 I investigated at some length the banning of Das Air Cargo, then the
most important transporter of Uganda’s fresh fruit to Europe. There had been
allegations that the company was too close to CAA and was basically given a
pass on standard regulations but they were never proven. However international
regulators caught up with one of the company’s DC 10’s at Gatwick during a
routine check. The result was that the airline was banned from European
airspace collapsing the business. At the time, it seemed prudent for the
government to acquire the company’s liabilities and invest in new planes (some
talking heads dreamed of Uganda being a cargo hub and still do). They did not.
It’s not clear if CAA was ever overhauled after what was clearly a crisis at
the institution. Its like, I told a friend, the equivalent of DAS purchasing
those HIV- free certificates.
A similar path is being followed here with Air Uganda maybe.
Cecilia Ogwal, the Opposition Whip, whose political career spans almost four
decades, hunkered to the past this week suggesting once again that Uganda
needed to revive its national airline. The Uganda Development Bank if it had
the resources apparently would like to buy a majority stake in the airline,
parliament was told. In his statement on the airlines website, C.E.O Cornell
Muleya put the blame on CAA and sought to distinguish the audit of the
regulator from the safety record of Air Uganda itself. This logic goes
something like this; that your health is no reflection of the medical board’s
issues with your doctor’s practicing certificate.
In arriving at this, Muleya cites IATA standards the airline passed (a two-year
evaluation). In other words the regulator CAA is incompetent but the airline it
supervises is not. This is not implausible but suggests an even worse
situation. If we can’t trust CAA, who else can we trust? The government needs
to address this question and the public interest more urgently than national
pride in a carrier with Uganda’s colors. We don’t need another air tragedy to
debate how competent CAA must be. What we need most is re-assurance that CAA
can do its job.
Posted on July 27, 2014 by Angelo Izama
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