Hi John A. Jackson, What a wonderful job you have done to capture all the main points in our discussions on Degazzetting of Barifa forest and the concerns over the environmental situation in West Nile. Thank you for a job well done. Congratulations and please keep it up. You should have a professional rapporteour. You are sitting on an important tallent man! Am sure members will appreciate all your efforts to document the discussions in the most precise way possible. The question might perhaps still be how do we ensure that feed into policy formulation and decision making processes? At least we now have some thing at hand to present. it also brings back the question of identity. Who are we? I agree with you it is time we discuss the causes of the increasing poverty and unemployment in West Nile and their implication for the social, political and econamic stability of West Nile. As you bring up this topic my mind immediately runs to the iddleness and disorderliness among able bodied young people devouring "marungi" like cows in Arua Park in Kampala and all the towns and urban centres in our districts. What is causing all this and where is leading us? What will become of all these young people in years to come? These iddle youn people will soon turn into a bee hive of hard core criminals breaking into people shopes, offices and houses for survival. We seem to have assumed it as a normal thing in our middist. Whenever we meet these people we simply look away as if it is not our problem. We have trained our eyes not to see them. We want to pretend that it is none of our busines. But the day the will start targeting our hard earned resources and going after our lives we will see the gravity of the problem we have ignored for years. Those who have some thing will definitely be the first target! I really wish members appreciate the gravity of this problem and give it the attention it deserves for our own good and the good of our future generation. There is some thing which we have refused to do at the most approriate time which we will be compelled to deal with at a much higher price in future. I may sound alarmist but time will tell. Thanks. God bless you. Sam Andema
--- On Fri, 15/5/09, JohnAJackson <javud...@gmail.com> wrote: From: JohnAJackson <javud...@gmail.com> Subject: [WestNileNet] Hot Topics for discussion To: westnilenet@kym.net Date: Friday, 15 May, 2009, 7:41 PM This is a reminder about the issues & Hot Topics for discussion:* > ** > 1) Closure of Primary School in Koboko District---------Done > 2) Migration of Walalu Pastoralist in Wet Nile > 3) Barifa Forest demarcation for development-----------Done 4) Derfoestation of West Nile Region----------------------Done > 5) Relocation of Arua Prison out of the City or Town > 6) Matego District Issue > 7) Electiricity & Power development > 8) Poor Performance in Schools in West Nile, Task Force (TF) = Waiting for > report > 9) High Unempolyment & Poverty in the West Nile Region > 10) Other Business ( Add more issues as you please) May suggest that to members of this forum that High unemployment and Poverty in the West Nile Region be discussed for the next two(2) weeks Please look at root cause & solutions/proposals I have attached two PDF docs about the summary points on the recent dicussions. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________
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