Gwokto
I will reason with you if you reach a level to accept that if the entire
state for Uganda can be dissected into small chunks, so can the region of
Buganda. It gets bothersome to critical thinkers, when the preachers of
destroying our country stand up and state that the region of Buganda is
indivisible.
When we agree on that very basic principle I will respond to your writing.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
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 Gwokto La'Kitgum
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 7:26 PM
To: ugandans-at-heart
Subject: Re: {UAH} I suggest we split Uganda into 14 states
I dint want to comment on this thread but allow me do so just once and for
all.
In as far as the word "country" can be practically defined (there are a
zillion aspects of it our there), only one homogeneous region will survive
this definition. Its only Greater Acholi region that can stand alone and
develop as such to be one independent proud people and country. Not even
Buganda bcos this boasting place actually has only Tilapia and Emfuta as its
natural resources and the lake is fast reseeding as well and let alone most
of Buganda is borrowed land from Bunyoro. The Nyoros will this time be able
to afford the military hardware thru its endowed oil wells to take back
their lost counties and even do in Buganda for lost wealth and past haunting
humiliations even if it means using hired guns from Acholi and Machar's Nuer
to be paid in arrears from future oil squirts. Tilapia will not fund even a
mere AK47 from the K'jongs. Busoga may also want Nkokonjeru (the only
Jiggers-free Busoga inhabited region) back. Buganda will be chocked
lifeless. To be honest, its that time that Buganda will know that its
citizens have been fleeing their region for neighboring ethnic communities
to as far as Koboko for reasons the Kakwa doesnt know except the Muganda
self-exiled settler.
Reason I am saying all these ridiculous rants is that those of you who think
Uganda can go its way to break apart arent reading or dont know who or what
you were before Uganda was. We can only live as a people but not as divided
people. Many of you are not informatively fit to be in UAH bcos you are
deficient of our pasts - and I am afraid to know even some so=-called
learned professors here are.
Problem is, you make some of us sink so low to pump sense and sensibilities
in your peanut brains. I hate voluntarily reversing my upward climb on the
ladder of reason just to rescue uninformed adult toddlers.
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <[email protected]>
wrote:
There you go !!!!!!
EM
On the 49th Parallel
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 Robukui .
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 5:59 PM
To: UAH
Subject: Re: {UAH} I suggest we split Uganda into 14 states
Robukui,
Teso should break off and if Bugishu, Bukedi and Sebei wish to join it, then
they can form the Middle East Africa and eventually incorporate Teso Kenya,
Busia, Bungoma and Kitale. We should not blame colonialists for arbitrarilly
demarcating our continent yet we still respect those boundaries.
In that respect I salute Eritrea and South Sudan for taking action, not just
talking.
Peter Simon
Albert Einstein said," Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new."
Viele GruBe
Robukui
2014-02-15 11:32 GMT-08:00 WB <[email protected]>:
Ms Nyar:
What is your point?
WBK
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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:44:49 +0100
Subject: Re: {UAH} I suggest we split Uganda into 14 states
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
So why r Nigerians running to other countries? Why are they hacking and
burning each other to death?
All Afrikan leaders get god-sent dreams and palang! Off the air with it like
Idi Amin.
Too sad! :(
Nyar
On 13 Feb 2014 20:11, "Gwokto La'Kitgum" <[email protected]> wrote:
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<http://www.observer.ug/images/stories/Odonga-Otto-2.jpg> Recently, while
on a visit to Nigeria, I felt it important to reconsider my views on
federalism.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria comprises 26 federal states. I had the
courtesy of visiting Aqua Ibom state located in the coastal southern part of
Nigeria. Aqua Ibom state was carved out of Callabar state in 1987, just a
year after Ugandas NRA/M revolution.
Aqua Ibom state has a population of 4.5 million and budgetary revenue of
about nine trillion Uganda shillings, which is close to two thirds of
Ugandas annual budget. The state has a monthly local revenue collection of
about Shs 30bn.
Aqua Ibom state is a model for a successful federal state in Africa and I
bet in the next three years it will be one of the leading tourism
destinations in Africa. The whole state is dedicated to God and every Monday
all the civil servants and political leaders start the day with prayers and
give themselves goals to achieve in the week.
I attended the routine Monday morning prayer where a sermon was delivered by
the speaker of the state assembly, Rt Hon Samuel Ekon. The state has built
the first underground water drainage facility in Africa, whereby a town like
Bwaise was drained with drainage networks stretching 9km beneath the city,
without any building having to be destroyed.
There is free health care for expectant mothers and the elderly. The state
is building an international airport at Ibom, just 10 minutes flight from
Callabar Airport. It has also constructed 290 new roads and built Nigerias
first e-library.
Additionally, the state has completed a 191-megawatt power plant, built a
69km gas processing pipeline and embarked on comprehensive rural
electrification linking 1,400 communities to the national grid. This has
helped the state to achieve 85% rural electrification.
The Aqua Ibom government has also built a 30,000 ultra-modern stadium to be
commissioned later this year when the governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, is
set to sponsor an international friendly game between Britains Arsenal and
Manchester United in September. This game would be the first of its kind in
Africa and it would boost tourism in the state.
Furthermore, the state is undertaking construction of an Olympic-size
stadium, six fly-overs and massive housing projects for its people. In
addition, the state offers free quality education and is constructing the
eight-lane third ring road, among others.
Would the central government of Nigeria have achieved all this if all eyes
were on President Goodluck Jonathan? Or, rather, has President Museveni
achieved such success over the last 28 years?
Previous governments in Uganda made deliberate efforts to forge national
unity. Our forefathers, for instance, had school exchange programmes whereby
students from all over the country studied in different parts of the same
country.
Nostalgia still runs high for old students of schools such as Sir Samuel
Baker in Gulu, Sir Tito Winyi in Bunyoro and St Leos in Fort Portal [where
my father studied]. However, this practice has been frustrated to the extent
that today one can easily study from nursery to university without leaving
his or her village. The cultural shocks and national divide are more
profound today.
There is too much centralisation of power and heartbreaking competition for
such power. And such power at the centre is very often abused and
personalised to the extent of a leader calling the UPDF my army or a
natural occurrence my eclipse.
The national cake has been used to develop certain federal districts at
the expense of the whole of Uganda. Therefore, there should be a deliberate
effort by the central government to consider a federal system of governance
for Uganda.
Government and Parliament must come in to educate and sensitise the public
about its advantages. We must all accept we are different yet we have to
live together, just as a fruit salad is best with many other components.
Uganda can reconsider federalism by amalgamating the vast 117 districts into
14 federal states; West Nile, Acholi, Lango, Bukedi, Teso, Busoga, Bunyoro,
Karamoja, Buganda, Ankole, Elgon, Kigezi, Tooro and Sebei.
Each federal state would have an elected governor and a council. This would
go a long way in saving on the cost of delivery of social services and
organising elections. The current governor of Aqua Ibom state, because of
the two-term rule, is contesting for the position of senator and maybe,
later on, the presidency.
In Uganda, a federal system would ensure that those who contest for
leadership are pre-tested in their home regions. As the saying goes, charity
begins at home. In addition, federal government resources and revenue can be
used to develop international airfields, universities and business hubs.
The fear of federalism in Uganda is based on misconceptions about the Kabaka
taking over all the land and non-Baganda being forced to leave Buganda. This
fear is propagated by the enemies of federalism.
Does the Kabaka s power override the Constitution of Uganda and the Land
Act? On the contrary, it would be in the interest of the Buganda state
government to attract people to their state the same way the Nigerian states
are doing.
There should be a deliberate effort by each state to market itself to the
whole world and attract revenue for its own survival and that of its own
people.
Bravo Nigeria! Bravo Aqua Ibom state!
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
The author is MP, Aruu county, Pader district.
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Gwokto La'Kitgum
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