hi
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From: alex free <freeal...@gmail.com>
To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net>
Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Electricity in West Nile!
Hello Madam Ayikoru,
Thanks for wishing me a great week! I wish you the same. I wasn't angry at
you, rather I reacted at the idea that West Nilers may be reaping air because
they have always refused to climb the "yellow bus!" That is not just
what you wrote but many people think so. To be honest, when I think about the
issue of power in our region I get mad. A Rwandan friend of mine was surprised
to hear that we have no power yet Uganda sells electricity to Rwanda and other
neighbouring countries! It should be someone lower than Museveni to talk
loosely like that not he himself to claim that we have no need of power! In
2003 the German government gave some thing like 8 or 10 million Euros to build
Olewa dam. Nobody knows where that money disappeared. On the other hand I
don't want to think about Nyagak whose story all of us know including my
friend whose life was later endangered because he was the last person to suffer
the injustice of that political
bigotry that stopped Bishop Frederick from constructing the dam. Anyhow, we
hope and pray that with time, all those people with bad heart towards us will
one day go and we have another who will hear our cry. But in the mean time, as
I said earlier, nobody should stop or intimidate us from demanding for our
rights.
God bless you,
Andrua
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ayikoru <ayiko...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Dear Mr. Andrua,
>
>Please calm down! I'm on the same side as you and all who desire
genuine, non paternalistic development in West Nile and indeed in Uganda. All
I've done in my article is to satirise the subject matter, given the mostly
intellectual predisposition on this forum. Refer to all items in inverted
commas in my original article and hope you will see what I intended in the
first place. But clearly, for now, it seems I have missed the point, which is
such a shame.
>
>Have a great week.
>
>Maureen Ayikoru
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>On 4 Sep 2011, at 19:14, alex free <freeal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Brothers and Sisters,
>>
>>
>> Those who agree with me will not tow the line of argument of Maurine
Ayikoru and the like. Maurine is talking about boarding the so-called yellow
bus, I don't know which yellow bus! But the fact is, that yellow bus is a
symbol of of politics paternalism and favouritism. I mean in a paternalistic
political setting such as we experience in Uganda, Cameroon etc, the leaders
act as patrons. When a road is build, a hospital erected or something else, it
is seen as a favour from the big person and the citizens where such a
development takes place are supposed to be grateful and see the figure of that
politician as a saviour! That type of politics, dear Maurine, is not what we
advocate in Uganda and it is not the reason why most of the times people of
West Nile, Acholi, Lango etc vote in a different direction. The normal
understanding is that it is taxes which everybody pays which bring in those
services. So, for a citizen in Kasese or Abim to have
electricity or clean running wat
> er whereas the one of Moyo doesn't is unfair. Does the tax paid by the
citizen in Moyo not reach Kampala so much so that they have no records of
paying taxes? Is it why then they are denied of electricity? If other members
of a house receive goods essential which are useful for their daily living, why
not the other family members? Is West Nile not part of Uganda? Don't we, as
West Nilers, have a right to complain when injustice is done to us?
>> Maurine, I tell you, without electricity, there is no development,
what so ever, even if Museveni talks about industrialisation, modernisation,
development of science, etc!
>> I want to say that it is the presence of electricity that attracts
development activities. West Nile has full potential to consume electricity
just like Kampala, Mbarara, Jinja etc. When there is power, there will be
industries, factories, schools will use, households will use for lighting,
cooking, students use for reading, etc.
>> Others will add to that. I want to conclude by saying that we should
avoid cheap arguments and nobody must deny West Nile nor should we be silenced
about our rights!
>>
>> Andrua
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