Let�s not bury our head under the sand. There are major institutional issue in Uganda; Bobs� comments did not even uplift dust off the surface. The truth is, as hard as it seams to be, Sir Bobs� personate comment was not a direct attack on His Excellency the President or his Ministers but is an outcry for Ugandan, who he believes can do better to actually do better.
Look around you, what have we Ugandan got, apart from foreign aid?
Most of Ugandan successes are now only in paper- satisfying what others foreign policies dictate to us in order to qualify for foreign aid.....
We do not produce any thing, even the popular Coffee or Cotton is now out of the window.
The gap between the poor and the rich is now million times compared to the 70s and earlier 80s.
Infrastructures are going down the hill every second.
Foreign business women and men pet us at the back to make us think that we are doing fine, yet their major intention i s to make money in Uganda, not to put the profit back into our economy but to enjoy it elsewhere.
Let�s use Bobs� comments to strengthen our economy, relationship within tribes and with other countries, be smarter than contented with the ideas of doing better but do better.
We can start all these long process by acknowledging that, if one part of our body is hurting, then the all body is in pain.
If that makes sense then as Ugandan we should take an active role in condemning the dreadful war in Northern Uganda, in which young children and women are the main victims with on voice and support our government and other to ensure an end to it....
Unless we can stop just thinking about it or feeling sympathetic or helpless and hoping that what is happening in Acholiland will not happen in our door step but really do something that would contribute towards ending the war in Northern Uganda without pointing figure, we are all then not better than Sir Bob.
By: David Luwum
10th May, 2005 5:06 AM
Look around you, what have we Ugandan got, apart from foreign aid?
Most of Ugandan successes are now only in paper- satisfying what others foreign policies dictate to us in order to qualify for foreign aid.....
We do not produce any thing, even the popular Coffee or Cotton is now out of the window.
The gap between the poor and the rich is now million times compared to the 70s and earlier 80s.
Infrastructures are going down the hill every second.
Foreign business women and men pet us at the back to make us think that we are doing fine, yet their major intention i s to make money in Uganda, not to put the profit back into our economy but to enjoy it elsewhere.
Let�s use Bobs� comments to strengthen our economy, relationship within tribes and with other countries, be smarter than contented with the ideas of doing better but do better.
We can start all these long process by acknowledging that, if one part of our body is hurting, then the all body is in pain.
If that makes sense then as Ugandan we should take an active role in condemning the dreadful war in Northern Uganda, in which young children and women are the main victims with on voice and support our government and other to ensure an end to it....
Unless we can stop just thinking about it or feeling sympathetic or helpless and hoping that what is happening in Acholiland will not happen in our door step but really do something that would contribute towards ending the war in Northern Uganda without pointing figure, we are all then not better than Sir Bob.
By: David Luwum
10th May, 2005 5:06 AM
David:
Some of us Already see where Uganda is heading under Yoweri Museveni's dictatorship. There will be very many bitter cries even in all over Uganda even in Museveni Village. A story is told of how the late Tito Okello Lutwa (RIP) when he saw , before his death, the total destruction of Acholiland... Like a Kidd he can only shed tears like a running river!!!.. At one point Tito Okello (RIP) was lamenting to God as to why God is letting him live to see the mess he helped creat in Acholiland!! Kaguta thinks that erecting a road block every night fall on Karauma brigde will protect him!! Just wait!!!..as politics continue to unfold!!!
Matek
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