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Just for the record they were 22 not
23
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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:10
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Subject: Re: [Ugnet] Yesterday�s methods
cannot solve today�s problems. UPC hasn�t changed!
Mr. Freelance Journalist:
The fact that the UPC built 23 hospitals, is but a fact ..and nobody,
repeat nobody can come up with some revisionist propaganda to
claim otherwise. Also, the immense rampant existence of poverty ,
disease ,and ignorance throughout our country , is rather self evident..
one need not be a rocket scientist to observe this. How many
Ugandan have no jobs, no assess to Hospital (or health center, ) or lack
education under the NRM Military dictatorship exspecially in northern and
Eastern Uganda. In the North of Uganda a whole generation of Ugandans have
been lost due Museveni's wars..with no eductation, no jobs!!!.
If, therfore UPC were to adopt , as a matter of party policy,a move
to fight disease , ignorance and poevrty in the country today in 2005,
then I say the party is on the right track!
MK
musamize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Joe Nam
I should congratulate the Uganda Peoples
Congress (UPC) upon their successful submission of registration
papers.
This is especially so, recalling that the party
bigwigs once dismissed the exercise as �another movement ploy to
muzzle democracy� under the political organisations act. It shows a
kind of coming to terms with reality.
They marched to the
Registrar General�s office in style. UPC members were once again
conjuring up that carnival atmosphere of the 1980s. UTV was there to
cover him and that is how we got to see it all.
But at a
press conference recently, Dr James Rwanyarare said something which
showed that UPC had learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. He said
the party should be entrusted with state power to fight ignorance,
poverty and disease. Come on James!
you don�t expect to use
the political cliches of the 1960s, in the 21st Century, and expect
to be taken seriously. Businesses change their commercials b y the
month to win appeal and you are still using a line lifted from Okot
P� Bitek�s book Song of Lawino by lazy politicians of the 1960 and
1980s, who could not coin a new catch-phrase. Does it not show
bankruptcy of ideas?
The sub-standard debates in parliament
that is now telecast live on TV are all pointers to the huge poverty
of fresh ideas and thinking in the Ugandan body politic. If
parliament can perform so dismally, then the quality of debate at
district councils must be even worse.
I had occasion over
Christmas to spend an evening in Kisoro with Dictrict Chairman, Dr
Philemon Mateke and his Kabale counterpart Hudson Kakuru.
Kakuru took me on and expressed his disappointment with
journalists and the media for not showing enough enthusiasm for
kisanja (removal of term limits for the presidency in the
constitution).
Outlining the remarkable achievements of the
NRM, he said, �The president has done so much for the country, he
deserves a thank you by giving him another term.� Kakuru would not
let go of me. he wanted to know my view on the mode of thanking the
president. I told him that I found a solicited �thank you� rather
strange.
I told him of a man who one day summoned his large
family and told them to be very grateful to him because he bought
them food, clothes and paid their school fees. �What would you think
of such a man?� I asked him.
The UPC boasts of building 23
big hospitals and other infra-structures. But since I accessed the
World Bank records of the 1960s and got to know how much donor money
flowed into those projects, I can no longer be taken for a cheap
ride.
The writer is a New Vision freelance
journalist
Published on: Tuesday, 25th January,
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