Edward Pojim
Do you really believe that I am going to spend a time defending with you a
historical fact that has a name of Obote? No I cannot and for a very good
reason, the Olara Otunu supporters like you believe that AMO was a useless
man in Uganda politics. For one wonders if you would have raised that
question before Olara Otunu came to Uganda politics. But today you are for
your mission as it is of Olara Otunu is to permanently erase the name of
Obote from Uganda history and replace it with Olara Otunu. Had I posted that
Nile Perch was introduced by Olara Otunnu honestly you would have not raised
that question sir. It is such a true flipped African politics some of us are
forced to live with. For on a closer look, although the man is no longer in
power, but even dead and now for years, you still believe that he must be
erased from Uganda history, for one wonders why in all postings I have done
today, you have neglected all of them and responded to none, including a
woman that was stabbed to death on my street. But a single line of may AMO
rest in peace, woke you up to become an attack Dog.
And it is not only you that tries to divert things done by AMO to be praised
on Olara Otunu, but so are Baganda. Many many times I have tried to raise
these historical facts in Uganda and they have come back with it is not AMO
or his government but those were the colonial masters that built that. To
the kinds of you, it makes sense to put our people down but to attack any
progress. And yet as Baganda in these forums praise the British for
building Uganda, they fail to realize one major flaw in their argument of
AMO did nothing in Uganda. When you critically look at the Ugandas history,
Sir Edward Mutesa the first president of Uganda was crowned a king of
Buganda on 19th November 1942 at age 18, and he reigned the Kingdom of
Buganda until mid-1966. That is a whack of 24 years of Ssekabaka Mutesa in
power. But between 1962 and early 1966 Sir Edward Mutesa was both a Buganda
King and a Uganda president. And yet in all those years, you cannot find a
single firkin thing in Uganda registered to his reign. You cannot find a
single thing in Buganda let alone Uganda that was done by Ssekabaka Mutesa.
Thus the argument of AMO did not do this but it was done by Sir Edward
Mutesa fails to be a weapon of Buganda fanatics.
So like you that cannot raise a single thing done by Olara Otunu, you feed
on erasing the name of Obote by praising Otunu who threw the UPC government
out of power, as Baganda spend their time to erase it by praising the
colonial masters that caused two trips of Kabaka to exile. We were born in
very strange days indeed !!!!! Edward Pojim let us all raise up today for
praise be to Olara Otunu that introduced the Emputa into the waters of
Uganda.
The rest of us are as always moving on and about now !!!!
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
on 19 November 1942, his eighteenth birthday
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of edward pojim
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: {UAH} Earning a living--from Nile Perch skin
Namesake;
When did Apollo Milton Obote introduce Nile perch into waters of Great
Lakes? And be specific here, please.
Pojim
--- On Thu, 10/25/12, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Herrn Edward Mulindwa <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: {UAH} Earning a living--from Nile Perch skin
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], "G_NET" <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 1:50 PM
May president Apollo Milton Obote who introduced the fish into the waters of
Great Lakes rest in peace.
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alecho Jesse
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:33 PM
To: ugandans-at-heart; [email protected]
Subject: {UAH} Earning a living--from Nile Perch skin
Earning a living--from Nile Perch skinBy EVERLINE OKEWO | Tuesday, October
23 2012 at 13:21
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scales on dry hangers at Obunga slums in Kisumu. The scale less skin is then
bought by skin tanners at $2 for 100kgs for processing and making shoes,
handbags, sandals and wallets. TOM OTIENO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
A group of women at an informal settlement in Kenya's Kisumu County are
earning a living by making and selling unique products made from fish skin.
Using Nile perch skin, the group has been making shoes and belts that are
popular among residents and visitors.
Obunga Women group was started two years ago, selling fish. Thanks to their
saving culture, they were able to pool resources which went into the new
venture.
The groups leader, Mrs Seline Opondo, said that skins are obtained from
Nile perch waste products from a nearby fillet processing plant in Obunga
slums.
The waste products have been a blessing in disguise, she said.
Raw materials are easily available given that Nile perch accounts for 70 per
cent of the total fish catch from Lake Victoria.
We get the waste products and peel off any flesh before moving to the next
stage, which is tanning, said Mrs Opondo.
High oil content
Tanning, which involves treating the skin to produce durable leather that is
less susceptible to decomposition, takes a week given that fish has high oil
content. Chemicals are also used to remove the oil.
Table salt is applied before drying them in the sun. The skins are churned,
soaked, fleshed, and dried in the open air. Tanning prevents the leather
from becoming stiff once all the oils are removed.
The leather is then used to make foot wear, handbags and other products that
are developed by the group through the assistance of the Kenya Industrial
Research and Development.
The idea, which the women got from Kirdi, has since transformed their lives.
Use of fish leather is becoming popular especially in the lake side region
with government agencies and CBOs working in tandem to create value out of
the resource until recently considered as waste.
"Kirdi trained mongers on how to process fish skin into valuable leather
shoes that can compete in both local and international markets, said Mrs
Opondo.
Our items are made from rare and unique leathers. People look at them and
are amazed, she added.
Mrs Opondo is optimistic that leather made from the fish skin could
ultimately bring down the cost of footwear, given that the shoes are cheaper
compared to imported ones.
Teenage Mothers and Girls Association of Kenya director Philomena Othacha
said fish has emerged as a new alternative source of leather in what could
potentially change Kenyas leather manufacturing and fashion industry.
Bring down cost
The new sources could create a multi-million business for fish mongers in
this region. All that is required is government support especially to enable
traders access loans to expand the business, said Ms Othacha.
Members of the women group said that lack of ready market for their products
remains a big challenge.
Mrs Mary Onyango, a cobbler said that fish leather shoes will soon be the
in-thing in the fashion industry. Fish skins can also be processed into
suede and other high end products which are water and scratch proof, she
said.
A pair of shoes made from fish skin leather goes for Sh1,000 ($12) in the
local market and Sh1,500 ($17) if sold outside while a handbag made from the
same costs Sh6,000 ($70) locally.
The final products spot unique fish-scale patterns while maintaining the
soft texture of leather.
The women urged the government to stem the inflow of cheap low quality
imports and second hand footwear and leather products which is slowly
killing the local sub-sector.
Magnam Environmental Network official Michael Nyaguti said that the stock of
Nile perch is dwindling due to use of illegal gears adding that overfishing
could kill the sub sector.
Stocks of Nile perch have really declined and getting very big fish to
enable fish mongers get large skins has been a great challenge, he said.
According to the Economic survey 2010, production of leather and footwear
registered a significant growth of 36.5 per cent mainly driven by leather
shoes which shot up by 46.5 per cent in 2009.
Regards
Jesse
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