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NRM lazy leadership?! It is more than that
Mr. President
- In your article Movt�s problem is laziness of its leaders
By Yoweri Museveni Jan 1, 2004 in the monitor you seem to have re-identified �what is Africa�s problem� nostalgically � yours is an interesting viewpoint.
- And it is true as far as NRM intentional and held belief informs itself in public and not privately!
- To the rest of us we�ll let you know that NRM problem is a peculiar and a rare malignant.
- August 1987, a close colleague and I started doing some project work; we wanted simple information like; maps, social and economic data.
- One interesting moment to remember in particular for me, is when I wanted a map of Uganda.
- I was taken in for a thorough investigation and scrutiny, what the map was to be used for and not to give the map to any body but for the purpose I explained was to be used for.
- This map, the Uganda map just by close inspection of the eye, is faulty! It is a map though.
- I am a physical geography � but sociology is more interesting to me.
- I do not need a paper map since by a click of a computer mouse, a few shillings I can get any information about any physical location in the world and in a far better graphic or digitised format at one metre by one meter - enabling me to I see a chicken on ground.
- Nevertheless I did as instructed by the NRM agent and I still even have other funny information I was given, in my bookshelves by your lazy NRM type.
- 1988 I wanted social and economic data from what I remember to be a heavily militarily guarded department of statistics, ministry of finance manned by examined Makerere and Kyankwanzi graduates chum presumed ISO operatives at Uganda houses;
- Notice unless one had gone through Kyankwanzi there was no Ugandans could be employed into such high level institutions!
- Out of fun, I knew there was no such data. But I asked for statistics on BEANS PRODUCTION in Uganda anyway; in exactly the same way as in case of the map above.
- A young man commissioned for helping me, who I was informed was a Makerere graduate and NRM cadre interrogated me as to why I wanted Uganda statistic on beans production.
- He promised the data was there. I also agreed and waited as he browsed into computer printed figures not related to bean production to reflect NRM social and economic development prowess.
- For a week I walked to the same ministry DAILY- and because of my calmness, on several occasions I won an offer milked tea, bread, butter and sodas � which items seem to have been abundant here.
- I could not find out as to how these were financed and how ordered what for me!
- Besides, I never got the information though it was still being processed daily by NRM cadre!
- However though, I was informed that such information was a government �vital non-distributeable material�, which by luck I could or could not get. I never got it.
- By then my colleague and me have learnt a few things- as NRM world opened its doors.
- Our acts though originally innocent had become a serious investigation, a source of interesting debate and rare phenomenon into NRM institutions and mind framework.
- Me in particular as a sociologist, gave me an extraordinary opportunity to look directly into the eyes of NRM mind set and destiny of our country. (Then I had read Weber Max�s; State and Society)
- So I promised myself to get to a depth level with investigating NRM phenomena.
- 1987 my colleague and me took yet another step into the murky world of Uganda�s department of information former ministry of Information.
- This was a first occasioned by genuine efforts, to help in digitisation of data and films in the ministry - an interesting misadventure.
- There I could vividly see NRM iconic and symbolic �laziness� as you so well put it , Mr President.
- Me in particular asked question after question; in end I struck a gold mine.
- I was informed how the two ministry video cameras disappeared or were misplaced, may be the only property the ministry had for official public work!
- My discovery journey had only started and become very exciting indeed.
- Around the same period in a year or so, I went to Uganda Investment Authority;
- In fact on your concurrent speeches on foreign investment and industrialisation of Uganda.
- But let me ask you first � did you really believe in and study what you presented to Ugandans as a political scientist and political leader?
- On that basis, I personally had three targets; URA, UIA and Bank of Uganda. UIA and BoU were most inviting; even tea and sodas were served.
- That was to corroborate your rosy data about Uganda social and economic transformation, you zealously recited whenever occasion allowed.
- I got �some � data from all the above named sources but more from the UIA. Notice I reality informs taxes from UIA investment should be reflected in URA database and BoU macro structural transformation.
- Unfortunately the data was nowhere in tandem or synchronically like anything you said.
- I was devastated for once as I was actually getting to grips with �what is Africa�s problem�! But I needed patience.
- So for a about a year data gathering, I imagined � 500 million dollar �economic� investment on a yearly basis will be visible �sociologically� i.e. the employment structures, business entrepreneurs here and there, and general welfare.
- I realistically calculated and the more than one billion investments annually in Uganda were not reflected in either tax collections or macro structures derivations. What was the problem?
- I was later discover � some so-called investor had actually left Uganda. I had never put my finger on the reasons but they obvious, as you will read below.
- As if there was a spell cast on me � my colleague once thought we could help URC, so we decide I go and investigate.
- The URC facts I wrote about them so extensively so that there is no need to repeat myself.
- 2001 as I usually do has a 100-mega byte disk in my bag, with my economic and social designs- I printed them and took them with me to a certain government office.
- Exactly in the same way I was offered audience with the people I wanted to meet and presented my proposal.
- I had informed my colleague about these efforts to keep truck of what was going in case I did not finalise it in my limited time space here. He did trust him.
- I was promised action and a quick one as my proposals were quickly recognised to be � in-line � with this very institutional programme previously mapped.
- I was over-joyed and who wont?!
- I left everything to my colleague for a follow up since I had to attend to other matters else in the world.
- Year 2002 � that is two years later, and nothing had been done on my proposal;
- YET my colleague has hard about a �true rumour� of something like my programme present in 2000 in the same institution were five entities were involved.
- Luckily I was on ground to follow up the small project- so it was suggested I follow up our programme with Jesus energy and commitment - so I did.
- I was launched into a spacious paper filled office, of an elder gentleman how got extremely glad to see me as I was presented to him.
- Almost exclaiming and in deep laughter, he says, � aah you�re Bwanika have a seat �,
- and in instant he had recollected my concept work of two years ago as he stammers in yet deeper and deeper louder laughter yet assuring me, �� we discussed your project, it was very interesting and so on so forth�..�
- Seated in silence, stonily looking him into the eyes as the gentleman talks to himself, apologies and explains a bombshell comes out last.
- ��.you see Bwanika, Uganda (I had got the gist from past experience now) and the people here, �. He continues people were asking how that could be done since we did not have this and that �� as his temperament changes from humour, seriousness and helpless laughter.
- �. ��someone here has that project and I in fact I must be responsible (he stops) but someone with a certain muzungu in this building are running the� (laughter) so and so forth�.�
- Later after about 15 minutes the meeting is over.
- I rushed like mad to my colleague to confide in him what I have heard. The person doing the rounds with the concept project of two years is NRM cadre flirting with an �expert muzungu�
- work Ugandans are capable of doing at no or low cost, with enthusiasm, vitality and commitment.
- Defeated, my colleague lays back in his chair for a short while � the day was over for him.
- it was coming to 5 .00 a. m. East African time.
- Without saying a single word to me he picks his car keys and leaves his office, so we part and go own ways.
- Mr. President we have a lot to say- but may be YOU can explain why the UNEP financed FOREST PROJECT in Mbarara IS COLLAPSING or abandoned by the financiers � laziness?!
- NRM will never ever develop Uganda � that is the bitter truth you should live with.
- NRM Lazy?! NO. NRM is backward, ignorant and in other special cases, bounds to primitivity.
Your humble citizen
Bwanika, Luwero.
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bwanika
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