Dan Bwanika
“Buganda can develop the site into a real tourist center with modern eco
buildings.” You forgot to add “As it successfully developed Amasiro site into
a tourist center”. Friends I think I have had it with Ugandans let me go to my
very comfortable bed.
It has been a challenge as always to reason with our people today.
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"
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Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 10:40 PM
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Subject: {UAH} Forumists: Have Your Say about Entebbe International Getaway
Forumists
Let us fight this shame - African Ugandans.
Anyone who uses Entebbe http://entebbemc.com/contact-us as a getaway Must make
a statement to Entebbe Municipal Council and Uganda government as well as in
particular. There is a need for a Jennifer Musisi and huge funding to salvage
Entebbe.
The government can as well return Entebbe to Buganda Kingdom as the lease
expired years ago. Buganda can develop the site into a real tourist center with
modern eco buildings.
- There should be a 24/7 airport bus moving in both direction at every
top of the hour
- Remove old decommissioned planes they are unsightly and a danger to
the population who uses them as recreation
- So called beaches including Lido beach should be made to meet
minimum standards instead of propriety owners just earning money from ignorant
population who uses them. These are not resort beaches including many hotels
here by an iota of imagination.
- Hotels in Entebbe should clean up and set up water quality
monitoring units instead of letting people their clients swim in dirty filthy
water especial women and young girls.
- Unfinished hotels littering Lake Victoria shores should be outlawed
or let the proprietors complete them.
- Entebbe should be the first impression instead of what it is today
with kotoro slums and unfit old buildings all over the place.
- I can’t understand why among all places Kasenyi became a military
training ground – the training ground should be removed. The military is not
part of the tourism.
- Entebbe can have street lights as the state house has, using garbage
generated from that town- let Makerere Engineering students build a garbage
electricity generating power plant it for EMC
- Kitubulu landing site should be upgraded from a village fish
catching place to an international tourist getaway into Lake Victoria and
beyond.
- Some areas in Entebbe should be gazetted for Natural forest
- People should be stopped from just excavating hills in Entebbe for
housing construction without proper survey and soil test engineering advise
- Botanical gardens should be plant gardens we do need the British to
come back and take care of disintegrated gardens - plant biologist from
Makerere should be recruited to upgrade botanical gardens.
- NCCH should set up reasonably good commercial and residential
facilities and old and unfit building be removed.
- Remove Kiosks and slum along Entebbe road and improve the
architecture through legislation.
From: Timothy Gaburungyi <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 12:15
To: [email protected]
Reply To: [email protected]
Subject: UNAALIST Arriving in Uganda at night at Entebbe be careful - Musese
Hi Frank,
Sorry about your experience. It is possible it was that bad (and I do not make
excuses for it) because of the late hour but I am purely guessing.
I have typically arrived at night at about 9pm and it has not been that bad.
There was less lighting than I am used to but not so bad. That said I must
commend you on trying to keep your travels plans private. I think it enhances
ones security.
I too HATE that walk to that far off parking lot. It is even worse when you
come back to depart. There is no elevator or escalator and you need someone to
carry the bags up the stairs, or you can put in a nice workout pushing the cart
up the ramp!.
Anyway on arrival night last July 2013, while heading into Kampala at some
point just after Kisubi, a vehicle with wailing sirens approached from the
Kampala direction. My driver pulled over to the side of the road, stopped the
car and even switched off the engine. The vehicles in front of us and behind us
did the same thing. Now here I was getting thunderously impressed - these folks
let the ambulances and police cars pass by. I was thinking of writing to then
Mayor Bloomberg advising that New York Taxi drivers should come to Uganda for a
lesson in road courtesy.
And then we remained parked for a minute after the ‘ambulance’ had passed by.
Remember it is about 10:30pm, I am parked on a poorly light Entebbe road side
with a driver I just met an hour ago. “Eh Pilot, why don’t you Koleeza the
engine, tuvewo wano?” I started with all the diplomatic confidence I could
muster to show this guy I was a home boy too. He was a little amused by my
attempt and out of respect politely responded, “Tulinde ko katono Boss”. A few
moments passed, then a dark colored SUV with sirens sped by, then another, then
an open landrover with soldiers all over, then I got the point…. The Museveni
of 2013 was different from the one of 1986 who used to share the roads with us.
Gaburungyi
Sent from Windows Mail
From: Frank Musisi
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 10:11 AM
To: Timothy Gaburungyi
Arriving in Uganda at night at Entebbe be careful:
Dear friends,
Greetings from Kampala. Goodness you pray that you don’t come to Uganda at
night this place is very scarely. My flight started very well from Los Angeles
International Airport on Tuesday, night and I was scheduled to depart London
Heathrow on Thursday after a day break and time difference in London. However,
our plane developed mechanical problems and therefore our flight was delayed
for another 5 hours from the time of departure. The pilot announced our arrival
30 minutes before, I checked on map and I could see Soroti . 30 minutes later
we touched ground and the pilot announce our arrival time about 3:45am Uganda.
“Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Entebbe, Uganda”. I must admit that between
the plane and immigration, I could recognize two improvements since I was last
here two years ago, April 2012; a) Two covered jet ways, one does not have to
suffer the pouring rain anymore from the terminal to the plane), and b) the
other one was and an Escalator), things that are normal to anyone coming from
the Western world but I guess a luxury to Ugandans.
I intentionally wanted to surprise family members and friends and I didn’t want
them to know that I was coming, but I had my cousin and a security friend
notified just in case I need their help. My intent was to really see the
“developed” Uganda I had missed in the last two years. I must say that I have
been coming to Uganda since 1998 and this is the first time that I arrived at
Entebbe at night and I was not psychologically prepared for what I saw next.
I cleared immigration $50.00 cash and got my bags with a help of Ugandan. What
followed me is something I cannot explain and don’t even understand. At Entebbe
“International” Airport the place is so dark that you can’t imagine that Uganda
produces electricity! Security is so lax and you could hardly see any security
officers or even police. The only parking lot where people park vehicles has
one working light and this light does not even light up anything. Something can
happen to anyone and no one will even know! Vehicles are not visible at night
in the parking lot people use flash lights. The parking lot itself is made of
loose gravel and I felt sorry for the Ugandans who have to deal with this on
daily basis. In fact the airport public parking lot looked more like an Army
training (Shooting range) parking lot like the ones in the woods at Camp
Shelby, Mississippi! Very disgusting. I felt sorry for the Ambulance that had
to deliver a patient because they have to use the same entrance as the people
going to the parking lot at the covered area. Very sad!
Looking around and with my experience, I estimated like with a simple
investment of about $50,000 – $70,000 one could drastically transform that
parking lot and make it safe and user friendly. All you need is to put
cement/hard ball on the ground, install about 20 lights (Solar lights). That
parking lot will be easy for everyone. The way it is now, I would not recommend
you ladies and even Americans to come use it at night. God is just taking care
of it for now but it is not safe to come at night and utilize that parking lot
unless you have good security.
Driving from Entebbe to the hotel Kampala along the road, it looked more like
going to the cattle ranching areas in Madera in Northern California or some
agricultural place deep down Louisiana or Mississippi. You would not imagine
that you really going to the Capital City.
Point of advice; if you have friends you want to bring to Uganda please bring
them during day time. They will be very disappointed if they came at night. Day
time yes, you will have traffic but they enjoy the chaos and confusion.
Enjoy your Easter and have fun. I am headed to Kalangala the Ugandan Paradise
and Howaii of East Africa!
Musese-Musisi
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