Urban Planning, NAADs & Economics/ists
1. A bug hit Makindye and only last May 2005 four people perished in dysentery related disease after having been rushed to Mulago, in what seems to be hygiene prevalent bone disease - on filing this report, more are still dying. 2. What really made matters very interesting, was the fact that this year’s budget made a small statement, in order to be a “capitalist you must first be a socialist”. 3. Can Uganda problems be solved YES but not with state robbery! However from express penalty receipts and all new forms of levies (kcc property taxes)- the rich will be rich. 4. Our dear beloved Mayor also mentioned some form of levies on out door advertisements. It sounded good if it is a by law implemented soon. 5. Now I hear Value Added Taxes raised to 18% on what? - menvu (ripen banana), bogoya (bogey), and food vendors- a disorganised state is always in form of an un-steady state. 6. Public accounts, Assets and Owners equity in Uganda simply means strangle the Chief Administrative Officers and their troupers. 7. In recent budget pronouncement there were three small things that captured my attention namely a). Rejection of Keynesian full employment via donor funds in a non-industrialised nation with 80% peasants and b). Poverty Promotion via agriculture and peasants re-generation of it under a hybrid crop spell. c). Lack of National Capital Investment (owino market) 8. But even then - Europe was re-constructing what’s been destroyed during the war 9. What is Uganda’s total capital investment and assets net worthy, if Uganda was a company; in form of buildings, roads, production entities (dams, factories etc), transport and communication (Uganda air Lines, Railways) 10. Donor funds must therefore go to building railways, roads contracted to sub-standard contractors etc., maybe to raise Uganda’s capital investment and assets net worthy re: URC, URA, UA, UCB, UDB, UTC, UPTC (utl & Uganda Posta) and so on and so forth. Aaah foods and beverages, lint marketing board. 11. Capitalists’ ways of thinking are interesting- now if we think of URA they will argue for every shilling invested in above entities, one or two must be returned to the investor. 12. Virgin boss was here that poor country boy (miracle maker) Branson on Uganda government invitation!!! Colonialism was defeated or a win-win situation - laughter. 13. Citizens the said 40 % of donor funds was also calculated in the next financial year budget (!) implying short of donor funds - turmoil and chaos will ensure in the ministry planning and finances. 14. The first pronouncement was probably right - donor funds (Keynesian full employment theory) will never develop Uganda as anywhere in Africa basically for several reasons; 1). Mismanagement and Disorganisation of the State apart from the repressive arms of the state 2). Rampant State Supported Corruption on all levels 3). Misallocation of funds in non-productive sectors - MP development funds. 4). Lack of basic National Development structures etc. 15. Notice only worthy projects are designed, funded and constructed by foreigners; Chinese buildings, Denmark funded Judiciary, EU Northern bypass, Japanese constructed roads and junctions in Kampala/Traffic lights, Agoa Bugolobi textile factory by Sri - Lankanese, Norwegian and Swedish funded Makerere University, Germany water system, Lira cotton factory Chinese, even Mulago general hospital is donor funded - what else?!!!!!!!!!! 16. By the way how much money was collected by Major General Wamala Katumba’s Uganda police - 17. May be URA is not actually doing any job and Maj. Gen. K.W. is doing it for them express penalty receipts and all new forms levies (kcc property taxes), hence boosting URA coffers (service sector) 18. But if the state urban planned what will be the return on every shilling allocation over a year period? Investment net worthy, owners’ equity and total nation assets? 19. The police are still sleeping in mama yiingi ya pole - budgetary mis-allocation and the construction sector. 20. The budget as any other budget Uganda made, did not meet sectoral demands or explain monetary/fiscal out/input as part of budgetary allocation namely: 1). Extractive Industry (Congo gold); 2). Production industry (agoa); 3). Thermal, Gas, Hydro 4). Construction Sector, (northern bypass, DFCU houses) 5). Trade, Hotel & Restaurants, 6). Posts, Transport and Telecommunication 7). Banking and Insurance industry 8). Public Service sector and other service (UPE); 9) Agriculture, Forestry and fisheries (Bona Bagagaware). 21. What were the taxes got from each sector and how did those sectors fair on a production level? 22. No body in government can exactly tell you how much the above sectors absorbed in form of budgetary allocation and contribution to the state in form of taxes either.(batu, mukwano, coca cola ETC.,) 23. Shilling 20 billion went I guess to creation of new districts - Afrikan ways. What went to region tier I don’t recall? Mark you inflation is held at bay- laughs. 24. Just scrap decentralisation. 25. As you might have noticed Donor funds generate a lot of inflation via unplanned for money supply and indeed new districts are planned for consumption that contains money flow and supply. 26. NO. Let us put it like this; new districts don’t invest in a lot of capital investment such that there is no consumption hence any inflation. Can we put it the other way round? 27. Budget making and planning process in Uganda is therefore still ad hoc. Micro finance 28. Planning without knowing what you plan for makes budget making a cumbersome business and indeed when money is meant for crooks (MP development fund) and there is total lack of basic infrastructure re: European Capitalism; (URC, URA, UA, UCB, UDB, UTC, UPTC (utl & Uganda Posta) and so on and so forth. Aaah foods and beverages, lint marketing board. 29. Industrialisation: properties and prophets: the evolution of economic institutions and ideologies - e. k. hunt agriculture - bona bagagaware & bodaboda culture 30. Two years ago a woman councillor in Luwero confided into me that National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) and hybrid crops is a total failure and therefore the entire project is only a retention of poverty - I refused to agree with her. 31. Today, I do, after a thorough investigation. Government should know this. 32. Clonal/ed Coffee! The peasant - Friesian (hybrid) cattle in Mbarara. 33. Conservation Biology - Uganda has indigenous plants and animals, however these might be history given to the propensity by which new plants and crops are introduced and fail. 34. A poor person, the peasants, cannot by marginal means manage hybrid crops and animals - they have genetic material foreign to our environmental conditions, necessitating high drug, pesticide and herbicide input. 35. Secondly soil fertility must be guaranteed, through constant synthetic fertilisers, for high crop production rates, the first crop might succeed but a second fails there and then attacked by bacteria (wilt), worms, and pests you name in regard to animals. 36. In the same vein a peasants spends all her/his earning, as an end result is left absolutely poor. 37. Hybrid crop and high produce crops implying production output is so high in a primarily low consumption country- hence most of the produce go to waste or fetch a low price. 38. urban plan and change clothe. Me Bwanika @ Communist, Lecturer, Consultant, Researcher, Theorist, Business Man (Capitalist), Farmer/peasant, Planner & Political Animal (social activitist). [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.idrconsulting.com <http://www.idrconsulting.com> Bwanika ________ http://www.idrconsulting.com --> for your consultancy needs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.Poker.se - Sveriges nya pokerportal! _______________________________________________ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
