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Dr. John Wathum-Ocama
You might have been so right after all
Bwanika.
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Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni, like Amin, communicates with God!
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:29:52 -0500
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Chris:
I find this to be an amazing coincidence in light of the allegation Mr Bwanaika
was making about Nyagak. The Nyagak dam issue is a very touchy issue for people
in that region and for it to have surfaced the way it did was a very unfortunate
undertaking ( I pray that some one will go to the region and prostrate for it).
There are a couple of reasons why this issues brings back Bwanika in the lime
light.
First, it is a known fact that the church had secured assitance from Italy to
have the dam constructed but the governement stopped the project claiming that
it was her responsibility, not any foreign body to build the dam. The church
leader who had secured this assitance was obstinate and the government did not
like it. According to the bishop's own account he was threatened with bodily
harm. This is something that happened in the presence of many people.
If you ask me today if the dam has been has been constructed, the answer is
NOPE. It is once again going to be used to secure some votes for politicians
who cannot win without promising every body something!
The irony here is that most projects going on all over the country are sponsered
by foreign organizations without government interfering in them. Weather we are
talking World Bank, IMF, World Vision, and others, they are all foreign
organizations. So if people in the region were mad at the government, the
President should not be surprise. He should find a better reason to entreat the
people of the region to vote for his June project.
Secondly, the surfacing of this issue calls into attention taking time to look
at facts objectively. We can obatin information from all sources and in all
forms but it is incumbent upon us to delienate facts from opinion and motives
behind why people say what they say.
I found it infurating for Mr. Bwanika to run around with information he knows so
little about associating people with the failure of a very vital project for the
region. I do understand that he is a reservoir of all information and he is
free as has been suggested on this net to say what he wants. However, if he was
physically in Arua or Nebbi for that matter, and suggested what he did amidst
the people in the region who know much more about the Nyagak dam he would have
had a lot of exlplanation to do regardless of the legal basis of his argument.
Regardless of how learned we are, if we are not ready to face to our mistakes
and wrong, we are as good as uninformed individuals. You can scapegoat yourself
out of a wrong doing but it does not make it right. It is all about ethical
behavior not about legal implication that matters even though we been been told
on this net it the latter that matters.
Have a good week.
Dr. JWO
>
> New Vision
> May 24, 2000
> Museveni Denies Govt Role In Assassination Plot
>
> President Yoweri Museveni has denied allegations that
> his government planned to assassinate the Bishop of
> Arua Catholic diocese, Rev. Frederick Drandua, five
> years ago.
> "What is important in killing a Bishop? A government
> like this, how will it kill a Bishop? This is very serious.
> That is a big lie. Christians should be serious," Museveni
> said.
> Museveni advised those who propagated the lie "to go
> and repent," saying he was not worried by the lie
> because, "I always communicate with God."
> The President was reacting to a statement made by Mr.
> Mark Buatru, the Arua district Movement referendum
> committee chairman during Museveni's meeting with
> district delegates at Ombaci vocational training center on
> May 20.
> Buatru said the allegation was one of the reasons Arua
> never voted for Museveni in the 1996 presidential
> elections.
> In 1994, Edward Azumaga, a former student of Mvaara
> secondary school, implicated special presidential advisor
> on political affairs, Hajat Anuna Omar, of allegedly
> attempting to use him to kill the bishop. She denied the
> allegation
> A magistrate's court which disposed the case heard that
> the plot was because Drandua wanted to construct a
> dam at Nyagak to supply West nile region with
> hydro-electric power.
> Ends. (Back)
>
From: "John Wathum-Ocama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: ugnet_: Nyagak river power station
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:54:08 -0500
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Chris:
We all know the history of Nyagak as you are restaing it down here. My problem
is more than whether the dam was built or not. My problem is with the
insinuation that you and other people were responsible for the failure of the
project. That to me was the point I wanted Mr. Bwanika to ellucidate.
It is intruiging to observe the gerntle man who claims knowledge of every and
any thing on this net to begin to take credit for the project. Well, it does
make sense if he is part and parcel of the governement as has been suggested on
this net.
As for me I do not need any archival information from any one as he has asked
other people to post them. I have read this net for years prior to officially
subscribing to it. I have followed closely any posting that is pertinent to
development in Uganda. In addition, I would be caught dead to rely soley on
informatiin posted on this net. Most of what is posted here any way about
Uganda I have already scanned them through other papers or forum.
As far as I am concerned, this marks the end of my discussion about this topic
because I know that the diversionary language that Mr.Bwanika has employed in
attempting to answer my questions directly will assure endless discourse that I
do not need. Infromation may be money to him but as far as I am concerned, time
and knowledge are money to me. I do not succumb to wastage of any of them as a
resource.
My caution to Mr. Bwanika is that he may have lost one or more members of this
net who had respect for him and I believe that if he continues this road he will
lose a good number of his audience which will denegrade his posture as "the
center of all knoledge".
Have a good weekend.
Dr. JWO
>
> Dr.JWO,
>
> Nearly 10 years ago when the Bishop of Arua now Arcbishop of Gulu Diocese
> had negotiated a free grant, not a loan, with no string attached from the
> Italian government with their own engineers to construct the hydro power
> station at Nyagaka, Museveni refused basically because at that time the NRM
> government had not brought any single development to Uganda and thought it
> would be out-shone by the Bishop. The Bishop was almost done in for his
> sensitivity to the plight of the people in the region. All the Italian
> government needed was a licence from the Uganda government to carry out the
> project. Deveolpment to the region would have been in place ten years ago.
>
> Today the government in order to garner participation and votes in the
> Referendum is desparately negotiating a loan from the same people who ten
> years ago had offered a grant which was rejected by the "clear-headed" one.
> What a shame!
>
> Chris Opoka-Okumu
> ==============================================================
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bwanika" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 5:48 AM
> Subject: ugnet_: Nyagak river power station
>
>
> >
> > Dr. JWO
> >
> > This news appeared in one of Uganda news paper, most probably in the
> > newvision.
> > The funny thing is that government was contacting the same italians to
> > finance a
> > project which they had previously offered to finance.
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > US$13 million for Nebbi power project
> >
> > Government has earmarked US$5 million for the construction of a
> > hydro-electric power project on River Nyagak in Nebbi district.
> >
> > It is meanwhile engaged in talks with the Italian government for
> > additional funding of $8.3 million to be provided to enable the project
> > take-off.
> >
> > Minister for energy and mineral resources Syda Bumba told parliament's
> > committee on natural resources that the funds would also be used to
> > establish transmission and distribution lines in the districts of Arua,
> > Adjumani, Nebbi and Moyo.
> >
> > She said she expected the project to kick off in January 2000. The
> > government wants Italy to provide 80% of the funds as a grant and the
> rest
> > as a loan.
> >
> > A feasibility study on the project has been completed. Tender documents
> > are also ready but the lack of counterpart funding is holding up the
> process.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> .
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