Mwaami Kasangwawo
Who is my Hero?
Em
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
----- Original Message -----
From: "jonah kasangwawo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: ugnet_: B. A. T SHOULD MOVE OUT OF kAMPALA
> Mulindwa,
>
> you are the one who is very strange indeed ! The production of tobacco
> didn't start yesterday. Why didn't your hero in Lusaka who has been in
power
> twice not set up a tobacco factory in West Nile ?
>
> Kasangwawo
>
> >From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: ugnet_: B. A. T SHOULD MOVE OUT OF kAMPALA
> >Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 05:57:14 -0400
> >
> >Netters
> >
> >Even if I do not take the pollution problem in Kampala into
consideration.
> >Can some one out there explain to me why we have this factory in Kampala
or
> >even in Buganda for that matter? Since when did Buganda start to produce
> >Tobacco to warrant a factory? Those are the silly decisions made by silly
> >governments ruling silly people. "The Ffe kasita Twebaka crap" The
removal
> >of that plant to the Regions that need them like West Nile will save the
> >roads, for you will not have to truck Tobacco every day, it will create
> >jobs to the Western Nilers, who by the way happen to be Ugandans as well,
> >you will create even a larger spin off jobs again to West Nile, and you
> >will cut off the massive daily travelling from Arua to Kampala with brief
> >case business operators, you will release the Kampala land for a better
and
> >higher investment, you will be enticed to pull the Electricity line from
> >Gulu to Arua for it will be then worth the investment, You will develop
the
> >Arua air-strip for the exportation directly from Arua to any where in the
> >world, that will mean an expansion of agriculture, for then Arua people
can
> >export them by air with out trucking them to Kampala, you will need more
> >and better housing for those employed will need housing. Makerere and
other
> >universities' graduates who get degrees and end up in Kampala Taxi park
can
> >apply for jobs in Arua to work as accountants, engineers, researchers,
> >Bankers you name it. You will cut down on the population in Kampala for
> >most of those living in Mizigo are doing so to access the bread and
butter
> >stuck in Kampala, then you will start to think of re-developing Kampala
> >with its original and planed population of 50,000. I can go on and on and
> >make this a posting by its self.
> >But to achieve this you must have a government with critical thinkers.
But
> >by the looks on the kind of people we have, The Ssemakula's who are
waiting
> >for their independence day as October 8th, God is telling me that I will
> >be asking for too much. Amazing how we were forced to be born in very
> >strange days with very strange people indeed. Very strange.
> >
> >Em
> >Toronto
> >--------------------------------
> >Medic wants tobacco firm out of the city
> >By Halima Abdallah
> >September 22, 2003
> >
> > KAMPALA - Doctors want the factory of the British American Tobacco
> >Uganda Limited (Batu) moved from Kampala.
> >
> > The President of the Uganda Medical Association, Dr Margaret
> >Mungherera, said on Friday that it would reduce air pollution.
> >
> > Mungherera also called for the banning of smoking in public
places.
> >Mungherera was speaking at a meeting that discussed draft regulations
> >prohibiting smoking in public places at Hotel Equatoria in Kampala.
> >
> > The National Environmental Management Authority (Nema) prepared
the
> >draft regulations.
> >
> > Nemas's action stems from a court order of December 2002, which
> >declared smoking in public places, a violation of the non-smokers'
rights.
> >
> > Court ordered Nema to make regulations protecting non-smokers by
> >December 2003.
> >
> > The draft regulations provide for on-spot fines for offenders
> >(smokers) and owners of public places.
> >
> > For habitual offenders, the licenses would be cancelled. The
doctor
> >said that tobacco is a substance of abuse whose consumption and related
> >problems have increased 10 times.
> >
> > Mungherera said that 525 children die daily in hospitals due to
> >respiratory related complications, of which 10 percent are from tobacco.
> >
> > She said that sudden infant death syndromes have been traced to
> >tobacco.
> > She said that 13 percent of children between 10 and 13 are already
> >in the smoking habit, half of them girls.
> >
> > Mungherera said that tobacco contains nicotine, which is
addictive.
> >She said that children must be protected from secondhand smoking even at
> >home.
> >
> > "Tobacco causes 13 different kinds of cancer in a smoker, but it
> >takes Shs 800,000 [a year] to treat only one patient with lung cancer,"
> >Mungherera said.
> >
> > The message however, did not go down well with Batu officials.
> >Batu's head of Corporate and Regulations, Mr Henry Rugamba, said that
> >people are scared of smoking because of medical claims.
> >
> > He disagreed that tobacco is a substance of abuse.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >� 2003 The Monitor Publications
> >
> >
> > The Mulindwas Communication Group
> >"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
> > Groupe de communication Mulindwas
> >"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
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