WBK
I missed your question as I have missed several postings due to a very thin
time I have to log on these days. The answer to your question is very
simple, yes we can follow that trend, we start by telling Ugandans the hard
facts. If we are to fight poor leadership in the country we do not start by
dividing it based on tribes. The moment you create divisions in the country
using or basing on tribes you are making matters worse. You are allowing The
Acholis for example to annihilate all tribes in The North as they tried to
do during Okello Otunnu government. So you leave the country in the Unitary
system it has for unitary has never been a problem in Uganda, but
leadership, separate it under Provinces as Iddi Amin did. But push in a
couple of changes to Amins system, allow The governors to be elected, as
District commissioners. Turn around and on top of the power Amin handed them
give them an economical power as well. Allow the governor to run a province
as Governors in United States run states.
Secondly it must be pasted on every Ugandans face that there is nowhere
under the sun where we will ever put a political structure that allows
Bunyoro to own control or capitalize on oil. That is a national income and
it is way up and above Bunyoro administration. When you look closely, Ottawa
controls more of the Alberta oil than Alberta, in United States to let those
taps go you need an Obama signature. This is all over the world so let us
not allow cheap politicians like Betty Kamya to lie to those in Bunyoro that
under federal System they will control the oil. And to state so is to lie in
day light.
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 WB
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 5:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: {UAH} The Federal question
Folks:
I posted the questions bellow and surprisingly or may be not, never
registered any response.
Let me borrow from Frederick Cooper who has written a great book in African
history. Is there a chance under the current structure/system that Uganda's
future could come to resemble South Africa? (Hint: South Africa has
empowered the regions/provinces). Can Ugandas obtain electoral democracy and
chart a plausible route to economic development under the current
structure/system? Can a state with a 50 year history of conflict,
corruption, oppression suddenly transform itself by accident of history
(e.g. death in the presidency)?
Will the oil resources Mr. Mirima laments about be used for purposes other
than patronage? Are Uganda's choices limited between the poverty of
marginalization and the devastation of exploitation? What about new
imaginations about the future? Given Mamdani's observation that "tribe" in
Africa includes institutions of authority (that is tribe is not a mere
sentiment), what are you going to do to make such captured institutions rule
bound and transparent enough that all citizens can obtain services or make
claims upon them?
Is there no way to get beyond the historical sequence that has produced the
limited possibilities and the horrific dangers of the gatekeeper state in
Uganda (as is the case elsewhere in Africa)? Are there no constructive ways
of broaching the reform question?
Granted there are scoundrels, but also constructive critics in UAH about the
dangers of the current situation in Uganda. The scoundrels keep defending
the false ways. Can the government itself be decentralized enough so that
meaningful political organizing with real resources (not quite the case in
Kenya yet) to use and distribute? In a word, how are Ugandans going to
reform the gatekeeper state, which has turned into a patron of patrons?
WBK
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