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When ever our governments get an achievement we
must recognise it, and tonight I am not going to do any thing less but exactly
that. To congratulate Uganda Government on its achievement of bringing
back a Japanese company Konoike Construction Company, to repair the traffic
lights of the intersection of Nakawa/Jinja Road. In the words of the Ministry of
Works spokesman Joseph Matovu he stated that the lights will start to function
in a week after the arrival of these Japanese expatriates. Just as a back
ground, these lights have been out of function for over three months. On behalf
of the Communication group, Bravo to the NRM Government for alleviating this
situation.
Now I want you to go back and re-read my first
paragraph. After you read it again, pause a little bit so that it can sink in.
Then you will understand where I am going with this posting.
Now I need all electricians we have in these forums
to help me here, what is the secrecy in constructing or maintaining a traffic
light? Yes if you are in Toronto, it becomes a little complicated, for the
systems are all intertwined, you have Hydro Lines, You have Cable Lines, You
have Security systems, You have Blue berries chatting, You have an enormous
Phone Lines on and on. And all these things run through almost a same system
underground. And I can tell you from Experience for I have worked with Bell
Canada, that what you have in a city is an underground which is another
city of cables and systems and you better know what you are doing when you go
down under. We do not have these systems in Uganda, what we have is a straight
traffic light in Nakawa/Jinja road intersection. A child who is electronically
oriented can sit in his lab or Dad's basement and he will write down a circuit
which can instruct the East West lights to go green as the North South lights go
red. He can not only write it but he can build it as a school project. Couple of
wires, couple of timers couple of switches and lights of different colour and
Walla you have a timed traffic light.
Uganda a nation which has very brilliant students,
why should a government leave Kyambogo technical School and go to Japan to get
specialists to install it and then wait for three months to get them back to
repair it? Which other country in the World gets Specialists from Japan to
install a traffic light in one intersection of the city? Oh by the way my
daughter has an argument that if a traffic light breaks down for three months
and the city is still running, the city did not need it to start with, she is
putting this on the heads of the corrupt government scummbargs who took on this
project to eat money. But there are other interesting factors as
well.
1) What government ministry accepted this
contract you start with? how much money was paid to these Japanese to come
to Uganda and to return when ever a light bulb blows up in this intersection? To
that ministry, give me the same amount you gave to these Japanese and I
will get Grade twelve students here to build you the circuits to run
traffic lights in if not a half of Kampala it will be three quarters of the
entire city. Give me a break.
2) The education system we have in Uganda and in
Great Lakes is a disaster and we must change it forth with. And I am going to
spend some time on this one for this is not a mistake of NRM this is a mistake
of a system we run our schools in. We are creating job seekers and not job
makers. We have told all of our people that you must make sure that your kid
goes to school and get a degree and very many have got them. If you are going to Uganda one of these days I want you to
take a minute and talk to those thugs who pick pocket at Kampala Taxi Park, they
are minimum a High School graduate, but many of them are University
graduates.
We have planted very many Universities in Uganda
that even my son said that you know few years to come every Ugandan will have a
degree, But what do they do after graduating? That question you can not ask, for
this very early morning I have got a phone call from an angry Ugandan for
NRM does not seem to like Karamoja for we do not have a university to take
in our kids.And that is the thinking of our people.
But this kind of education has been in Uganda and a
very effect one. We were blessed to have Makerere University one of the best in Great Lakes. And a parent from Rwanda,
Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi even United Kingdom, who did not get a kid in Makerere
University, missed some thing with tears. And they were brilliant and very
admirable untill when Iddi Amin came to power then the standards started to
fall. But let us take a stock of those we have educated. How many great
researchers do we have out there, How many writers how many philosophers, how
many engineers?
Because our education was primarily to build our
children to be job seekers, the devil has caught up on us today. Look here you
can not go to the bush unless you have a degree. The people taking our children
to die in the bush today are professors, they are Doctors, these are the
products of our great education. And again if you do not have a degree do not
bother going to fight governments and kill our people. for the camp of degree
holders is so full that you will not even be in a ten block square. For these
students of ours have studied and have got degrees but they do not know what to
do with them. For we did not train them to, and that is the mistake we did.
Because we told them that they must go to school in order to get good government
job, they are looking at Great Lakes Governments, and they can not access the
National Cake, so the solution is to get your young children and take them into
the Bush, for when those children die these educated fellas succeed. We have one
today in Washington eating with George Bush, I am asking you as a Ugandan today
who used to father a kid which became a Kadogo, will you ever step in
Washington? And not only Museveni but many others have been here and many will
come as you continue to burry your own.
This all goes back to our refusal to change our
education system, if we were creating Job makers, a professor would prefer going
to work in our countries to create thousands of jobs than going to the bush. But
here we are with a bush full of our degrees and our best educated. Yet in the
process the educated are not easy to their fellow educated, they assassinate
them or force them to exile.
If we change our education system, Uganda cities
will pay Technical Schools to build traffic lights and we will save money than
playing this silly game of getting a Japanese company to build one light in one
intersection. But having stated that, Uganda Government's accepting to import
this service from Japan shows that we have no government in Uganda, for you
wonder what the next Government requisition will be, Call a Japanese to come to
Uganda for we have a toilet in Ntinda which failed to flush? Just how low are we
going to go?
This is proof that Uganda Government is not a
government in confusion, it is a government on DOPE.
Be well all
Em
The
Mulindwas Communication Group
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