Dear members, Some time last year, we tried to build a consensus on payment of subscription fees of 50,000/= Uganda Shillings for West Nile Foundation. This idea was vehemently opposed by several members. Some even pretended that they had never seen the strategic plan, the memorandum and articles of association of WNF. Other members suggested that we should go slow on issues of money. As a result to-date we have no secretariat to co-ordinate our activities. We can't implement or move any thing. Members what do we do?. Should we all abandon this idea of having an umbrella organization. We have resisted all good ideas, from West Nile night, the Investment Club, and even the Science Cafe which records miserable attendances. We are comfortable and we actively involve our selves in smaller or sectarian organizations, when it comes to the bigger picture we sit back and savor the idea of our leaders failing. We have forgotten that Kigs uses money to host the West Nile net. He and Gordon Obitre-Gama had to import a server from USA to host the net. We have taken advantage of their magnanimity and abused it. What if they one time get fed up. By now we should have had our own website. I think the idea of a West Nile Foundation and the West Nile Net or forum should be discarded. Some of us were useful to our community without these organizations, We can still be useful without them. Lets agree to dissolve the Forum and the Foundation. Lets concentrate on our Local Counties, Districts, Old boys/girls organizations in our old schools were we are more comfortable, tribes and probably religion. Without payment of subscription fees, we have no right to belong to and hold an organization and its leadership accountable. Lets wind up the WNF and if our treasurer has contributions by some members let him arrange to refund them. We resisted the idea of a Ministry for West Nile affairs and now other regions have Ministries. West Nile doesn't deserve us. We lied to ourselves that we are of the Golden generation. But at this rate we are worse than our ' Kasamvu' (Sugar cane cutter) relatives. For they were not as enlightened as we are. _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet
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