Friends
Again in my continuing to get stuck into the history of Uganda I am going to
raise the issue of Iddi Amin giving services to people, there is no single
service that Amin implemented into Uganda to serve only Banubbi. Absolutely
none. When Republic Express Bus services were implemented into Uganda every
town got a bus, not Bombo alone. When he replaced The UPC one government
Rahemtulla buses with UTC, Uganda Transport Company was built not only to Bombo
but to the entire country. When he brought Tata trucks they were never sold to
only Banubbi they were sold at Muluka level. When he brought in Fiat 110NC they
were not only sold to Banubbi in Bombo they were sold at a Muluka level. When
he brought tractors into Uganda they were never sold to only Banubbi they were
sold on Muluka level. These Miluka levels were national administrative units
that even a Muluka in Dokolo, where people abuse Iddi Amin with impunity got
the services. And here is my simple question to you as I start this writing,
When these friends came from Tanzania and replaced Iddi Amin with an elected
government, did you see a bus company Owiny Kibul in Masaka? Did you see it in
Mbale? Did you ever see Owiny Kibul in Fort Portal? No Owiny Kibul bus company
was started by these friends in Uganda to serve only Acholi and Langi. An
elected government of Obote two government, actually created a transportation
system in the country to only serve two tribes, only Acholi and Langi. These
friends were so interesting for if The Owiny Kibul bus left Kampala it never
stopped at any stop until when it passed Kigumba heading into Lira or Gulu. And
on coming back to Kampala Owinyi Kibul bus stopped all way from Gulu and Lira
as an example and when it reached Kigumba it flew straight into Kampala. Do you
know why? Because the rest of the population in Uganda were not Acholi or Langi
thus they never mattered.
Town planning is a very interesting issue, you cannot run a pipe of sewer to
George Okello’s house and leave out the house of EM for he is a Munubbi. You
cannot run a water pipe to Ocen Nekyon’s house and pass all Alur’s house and
tap only Ocen Nekyon’s house for he is the only Langi on the street for God’s
sheiks. You take the pipe through the street and every residence, and every
business on that street accesses it, that pipe of water takes water to Banubbi,
to Balalo, to Kakwa, to Madi and to everyone that lives on the street. They
all squat on that single pipe and all tap water on that single water pipe. As
degree holders continue thinking that all Banubbi must be killed, and we have
the entire country serve only Acholi or Langi, you can never put that politics
in town planning. You plan for the entire population that live in the town for
you all must use the services equally or you all miss it. Until when Ugandans
accept that we are all Ugandans and we all deserve these amenities, sit in
forums and burn gas because Dr Stella Nyanzi took off her cloth, that is the
best discussion you deserve, but using a forum as this one, to pound on
matters that change out life styles in Uganda, forget it for it was never
created for you. And just before I leave this paragraph, I have read somewhere
Allan Barigye praising UPC for it never allowed people in Kabwohe to have
jiggers. That is nonsense for UPC never told anyone to pluck jiggers out of the
foot, we the people were doing it ourselves for we had obuntu bulamu. It is
that same Obuntu bulamu that Amin used to sell tractors to the people of
Dokolo, when in fact he never had any reason to. When Amin left power he
walked out with the Obuntu Bulamu and nonsense built its house in Uganda, we
kill ourselves as if there is no tomorrow, we camp each other for we do not
care, and we build mass graves in our communities, then after we have killed
each other that massively we bleat how the war was justified.
At the end of the day, refusing to plan our towns is going to come back and
bite us, and it is not going to only bite Acholi or Langi, it is going to bite
the rich, the poor and the innocent, for as you puke all those babies to a tune
of Uganda population doubling every 20 years, cities are going to become as
Mumbai, people are going to start squatting on sides of Kampala road and dump
their piles there and walk by. Now in Mumbai it is not such a problem for there
is a very hot weather and it dries up, but Uganda is a rainy country and all
those piles are going to become a disease epidemic, and all of you are going to
die, rich and poor Langi and Baganda it is going to be a mixture of disaster.
Do you know that I went to Mulago hospital and found out that they had dug a
pit latrine on the hospital for the system simply would not serve every one?
Pipes are and all systems must be built at a phase, so you get a 5 year plan
with an expansion of 10 or 20 years plan, you as Ugandans are not building at
all period, you are just manufacturing babies day in day out. Let me end this
way, when I was still working with Bell Canada, we went to Wood Bridge to build
a system, at that time all those houses you see in Woodbridge had not been
built so it was a jungle as you remember it. But the planners had all those
buildings planned, so we were going to run the Bell Systems before the
construction begun, now I am talking late 80’s. Because Woodbridge was going to
be taken by Italians, they had a huge say in how they wanted it to look like,
they allowed the water pipes to go in, they wanted the power cables to go in,
and they allowed us to run the phone lines through. What the Italians rejected
was to build a communication tower in Woodbridge. They all went against it and
it became not in my back yard. It looks ugly I do not want it near my home on
they went. So we never built it.
Today in 2016 Woodbridge is a very interesting suburb, phones work, power is
available, water and sewage systems are available in all those homes, but do
you know what is not in Woodbridge? They do not have cell phone service. The
only companies that can serve you when you live in Woodbridge is Bell Canada
for it can use powerful towers around Woodbridge to direct a signal there. If
you are on Virgin Mobile, Wind, Koodo, Fido or any of those smaller cell
companies you will not get a cell signal in Woodbridge. If you are on Bell
Canada or TELUS, you will get a signal but if you go to the basement you will
never get a signal on your cell. Woodbridge today has the highest number of
land lines on the city for they work than cells. When you refuse to plan your
cities today you are going to pay for it today and you are going to pay for it
tomorrow. And yes you all can drag your selves out of The Kabwohes, and out of
Dokolo and dump your selves into Kampala, the fact will remain that you will
end up chocking it, but the other fact also remain that when you decide to
drive a very expensive 4X4 to Kabwohe on a weekend, you will not log on a
computer for Kabwoke is not wired up. You will arrive in Dokolo and put your
pile on a jungle for Dokolo is not piped up. Whenever my children fly back from
Uganda the very first thing they hug as soon as they walk into the house is the
toilet. Do you know why? Because in as much as they find life in Uganda
depressing, they get tormented by hunting down where to dump. That makes some
of them think twice about going to Uganda.
We have some very serious issues we need to discuss about our country, we need
to raise them and candidly.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Bwanika
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 10:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: {UAH} WHAT EXACTLY IS URBAN PLANNING? And just asking !!!!!!!
Everything goes in Uganda! It will be so costly rectfy the problems.
Interesting article; how do you force water up the many hills of Kabale,
Mbarara, Kampala or Mpigi? Such questions don’t sound any bells to politicians!
Everything goes!
In 2011 I created a research department somewhere and I needed a person to run
it. The person would have world acclaim as we needed to seek funds here and
there to conduct our research.
I had a Uganda friend who was residing and working in Norway. He volunteered to
comeback to Uganda and do the needful, but he did not have a house- so
unknowingly he bought a plot of land 50 * 100 m in one of the so called estates
around Kampala. Hurriedly he went ahead step-up a structure.
One afternoon he came to my office - he wanted help to talk to KCCA to pull
sewer and water lines to his unfinished structure.
I told him that was impossible, to his bewilderment.
The sewage system in Kampala covers only Kololo, Nakasero, Kamwokya some parts
Nsambya - less than 18% of Kampala 50 years after the African became
independent!
I also informed him, he will not be able to get water in that place. National
Water and Sewerage Corporation had not extended their infrastructure to that
place.
He asked me what the alternatives were,
I told him for sewerage he had to dig/ construct a septic tank for himself.
He asked where ?
I look at the plot and the structure drawing and there was space in the would
be courtyard.
I replied in front of his house since he had no space left on his plot
He is a water biologist - instantly he found my suggestion repulsive and he
squarely rejected it.
The solution was to dig underground pipes and divert all filth from his house
to a lagoon . Creating a lagoon would cost him money and buying land and by
that very act he had no space to pass the pipes since all around him where
equally small plots scattered everywhere with no proper design for such
infrastructure.
In 2013 he managed to finish the structure - sold it off. For these
encumbrances and others he left the country for greener pastures!
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A land owner has a problem and he sought my advise. He had settled about 400
families on a piece of land around Kampala – it is hilly and the roads are bad.
I advised him to create a drainage system which will eventually eat up into the
already sold plots. Another problem was that each family were having two
vehicles and basically they had had to park on the road since the plots were
too small. Prior to demarcating the land such issues were not considered,
Down the road he says people have started moving out of the so called estate
and he is seeking a remedy to the problem – which in my opnion would be to
break down expensive houses otherwise as people discove the problem the land
and property looses value!
Bwanika
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