I am apparently in your dark alley in weeks.
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 Gook
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 5:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; G_NET
Subject: Re: [UAH] Re: {UAH} MAJOR PROBLEMS FACING UGANDA TODAY
EM,
Sometimes.......you are right on? Pray that me and you don't meet in some dark
alley!
Sent from Gook's iPatch!
"What you are we once were, what we are you shall be!"
An inscription on the walls of a Roman catacomb.
On 9 feb 2013, at 11:07, "Herrn Edward Mulindwa" <[email protected]> wrote:
Yowaana Nyamutale
Political patronage actually is more in Ugandans than in their leaders. Ki Luts
does not defend Ssabassajja Mutebi for he is a good leader but for he is the
King of Buganda, Edward Pojim does not support Olara Otunnu for he is a good
leader but for he is a Luo, Ocen Nekyon does not support Obama for he is a good
leader but for he is a Luo. When you extract the support and look only on what
those leaders have done, some are supported even before they are leaders to do
anything worth the support. Abbey Ssemuwemba does not cry for Suleiman Kigundu
for he was a good leader but for he is a Moslem, Kigundu never lead any country
he actually came to financé and stole money from every Ugandan by lying that
our money was stolen, but his being a Moslem covers all that and he ends up
supported. Is Museveni the problem really? So he walked to Pojim’ s house and
bribed him to support the worst American president ever? No I did not think so.
Let us get off the back of Museveni and look in a mirror what we will see must
scare us if we are still that intelligent.
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 yowaana nyamutale
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 2:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UAH] Re: {UAH} MAJOR PROBLEMS FACING UGANDA TODAY
Ogwapit Hannah
The virus that is going to kill Uganda is the political system called POLITICAL
PATRONAGE whereby Museveni must please/bribe people to support him. That is why
he has all those ministers and presidential advisors.
Museveni's political system is the burden Ugandans must bear in order to keep
him in power.
Henry
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:11 PM, william Ekwelu <[email protected]>
wrote:
A military coup? Give Ugandans a break!
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Friday, 08 February 2013 01:21
Written by Margaret Wokuri Madanda
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One, they say is an incidence; two is coincidence but three is a commitment.
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The UPDF Commander in Chief, Gen Yoweri Museveni, the minister of Defence, Dr
Crispus Kiyonga, and the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Aronda Nyakairima, have
one after another recently repeated the message about the possibility of the
army taking over the government!
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Is this the legendary ‘wheel coming full circle’, from the ragtag army that
preached a fundamental change, through sham elections and now back to military
rule?!
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What has incensed ‘Mzee’ and his clan Generals so much that they are left with
no option but to resort to the long-forgotten and internationally-derided
military coups? Previously, the regime has done so well using patronage,
dishing freebies and chopping up districts to enhance divide and rule. Have all
these failed?
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All the three who spoke have insinuated that the army would take over if
Parliament turns the country into anarchy. Just for the record, about 75% of
MPs of the 9th Parliament belong to the ruling party.
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The same ruling party emptied the treasury during the 2011 elections to enable
their MPs buy their way into the House. Is that the reason Museveni is shocked
and angered that the ‘idiots’ whom he spent so much money on to have them fixed
in Parliament should be giving him such a hard time?
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But the President should not exhaust himself and his store of insults with
threats of military takeovers. He only needs to be reminded that today’s
so-called party indiscipline was actually bred and nurtured by him through the
then famous ‘individual merit’ system!
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On his arrival, Museveni castigated parties, saying they were divisive. He
encouraged individualism that was dressed in the beautified language of
individual merit. Now the very system he nurtured is coming back to haunt him.
Recently, as NRM legislators ate and danced away the nights in Kyankwanzi, the
party should have used this time to exorcise its members of the ‘evil spirits’
of individual merit!
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But also, one needs to ask: why doesn’t the executive ask the hard questions
as to why its MPs are behaving in such a manner? This reminds me of Daniel
Goleman’s word cited in Stephen Covey’s The little Big Things. Daniel Goleman
said: “How can a high-level leader like…be so out of touch with the truth…? In
fact the higher up the leader climbs, the less accurate his self-assessment is
likely to be. The problem is an acute lack of feedback, especially on people’s
issues.”
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The reason MPs have severally disagreed with the executive’s position could be
that they have a more accurate feedback about people’s issues. The so-called
‘rebel’ MPs are more popular because they represent what the ordinary person
feels. Look at the grief that was poured out when the late Cerinah Nebanda
passed on!
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And why wouldn’t MPs go against the executive when they are the ones feeling
the heat from the populace?
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I read about a proposed constitutional amendment to ensure MPs do not freely
speak against their party. I think that if such a law is passed under the
current framework, the MPs will be in a precarious position. Rather, the
Constitution should be amended to replace constituency MPs with Proportional
Representation (PR) ones.
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PR will enable Museveni have a firm grip on all his MPs since it will be the
party that will have selected members to represent it in Parliament. The party
will also easily recall any member without fear of the risk of losing that
constituency. Finally, PR will wave off the pressure on MPs who sometimes have
to act in the interest of their constituents since under proportional
representation, the electorate vote a party not an individual.
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That is the way to go, not the old-fashioned coups.
The author is a political activist.
[email protected]
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On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Hannah Ogwapiti
<[email protected]> wrote:
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69 Ministers, 327 Members of Parliament, 278 political appointees who include
80 resident District Commissioners and assistants, 75 presidential advisors and
43 private presidential secretaries and their deputies is just a picture of
Uganda's public administration. Pearl of Africa as commonly known is argued
that not only is it a sleeping giant but an over governed and unproductive
country.
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It has many administrative units; 45,000 local councils, 5500 parishes, 1026
sub-counties, 151 counties, 18 municipalities and 80 districts. All these
structures have executive 10 man executive officials. So, the total number of
officials is 10 times the number of every administrative unit.
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How does this nation manage its servants? Uganda's expenditure is very
enormous and abnormal.
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A presidential advisor and his deputy earn 908.5 million Ugandan shillings
enough to pay 378 primary school teachers a salary of 200,000 Ugandan shillings
a month. Private presidential secretary and his assistant earn 7.5 billion
shillings enough to; support 2,077 primary schools with 800 pupils each, buy
drugs for 890 health centers, construct 935 classrooms or pay 37,500 primary
school teachers. Members of Parliament altogether earn 57 billion excluding the
allowances, the 69 ministers have all sorts of allowances and only government
expenditure on Ministers vehicles fuel, oil and maintenance in 2006/07 was 92
billion Ugandan shillings.
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In 1986, the National Resistance Movement came to power, it collected 84
billion as revenue. Inflation was at 240 percent, it worked tirelessly and
revived the economy reducing inflation to 0.3 percent. The present government
collects 4 trillion as revenue but sectors like education and health and
education which used to be vibrant are in shambles.
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The nation has 31 million people, according to the ministry of health, there's
one doctor to every 300,000 people. Surprisingly, there's one administrative
leader to every 6 Ugandan. The nation has poor administrative structures, poor
administration and provides poor services to its citizens. The government makes
good policies but it's very hard for them to be implemented leading all these
deficiencies.
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Policies like: decentralization policy to help distribute resources evenly;
minimum health package which puts all health centers under a structured
organization; Medium Term Expenditure Framework that makes the government
budget and expenditure known after every 3 years. Such good and efficient
policies have been made by the government but 600 billion Ugandan shillings is
lost every year.
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The main reason why such policies cannot be implemented is due to the
government's huge expenditure to its top leaders and poor wages paid to its
civil servants. This has led to absenteeism, lack of morale as the public
servants do other jobs beside their jobs to supplement their earnings.
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It's arguably that the nation has produced one of the brightest people in the
East Africa region with the prestigious Makerere University but has the lowest
productivity in the region. This is because Ugandans are juggling too many
sources of income hence cannot specialize and put all their effort in one to
enable them get sufficient income.
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The country also has a culture of passing laws to solve problems, this has led
to it having too many laws and continuing to pass others yet the ones present
are neither effective nor implementable. For instance, it has failed to
implement the traffic and productive law yet it has passed a law to gag the
media, limiting public participation in governance and locking up journalists
with dissenting views.
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Pundits say that for the country to develop, it needs to reduce its
administrative leaders, get more serious in enforcing its policies and laws.
The administration is the main cause of the government's huge expenditure,
leading to lack of funds in other sectors and poverty. The country needs to be
serious in economic transformation and development by getting its priorities
right.
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Civil society, donors, private sector experts and political analysts have
raised numerous concerns over the governments expenditure on its administration
but their pleas have fallen on deaf ears. The country not only needs a budget
discipline but get their priorities right.
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By Oscar Otindo
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The writer is a Kenyan volunteer and activist based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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