Sam, You are 100% ++ right on tree planting. An ounce of action is better than a tonnage of words. Let me add grafted mangoes which produce fruits in three years to the list of trees to be planted. This would go along way to address nutritional and food insecurity problems. We would have also laid foundation for fruit processing industries in addition to raising household incomes in West Nile. Just imagine each homestead with at least 5 grafted mango trees, where shall we be in terms of environmental conservation, income generation and raw materials for juice factories? Shoot two birds with a stone or miss out! Cheers!
Denis Lee oguzu --- On Sat, 5/9/09, samuel andema <[email protected]> wrote: From: samuel andema <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] FOLKS LET US MOVE TO PROCACTIVE VENTURE To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 6:26 AM Hi Nayenda, Thank you for joining the tree action group that is emerging. Action is critical atthis stage. However you need to tell how many treesyou plan to plant this year alone. We want specific targets so that we shall evaluate our performance in December. Engineer Obetia, and Margaret Angucia be prepared to have more people joining the tree action group. Thank you for kick-starting this process. The future looks bright! Those who haven't made up their minds had better do so now. At some point we are going to put a temporary ban on people who talk about the environment without taking personal initiatives to demonstrate what they are talking about. We shall arrogate ourselves absolute powers to prosecute, judge and execute. Thank you. Sam Andema --- On Sat, 9/5/09, Nayenda Elly <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nayenda Elly <[email protected]> Subject: [WestNileNet] FOLKS LET US MOVE TO PROCACTIVE VENTURE To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 9 May, 2009, 1:58 PM Friends, Reading thru the articles of Magaret and Robert besides after sharing with a reliable source in Arua, Arua town to begin with can have a serious tree shade cover. There is plenty of places for planting as many trees in town as are now in Barifa my source affirmed. Therefore i offer to join Magaret to put me on her list of planting trees in town through some strategy of sacrifice as per Robert's axiom. Friend's proactive venture will make us take West Nile to another level. Folks let us keep the net work working. Elly Nayenda From: Margaret Angucia <[email protected]> To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2009 12:08:43 AM Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: Barifa Issue Dear All, I love Robert's idea of each one of us doing something practical on our own before discussing public service. I would also like to plegde to cause at least 100 trees to be planted this year. Are there more people who would like to get on this project (although folks definately have lots of projects going on) for the sake of this network? Margaret On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:00 PM, robert obetia <[email protected]> wrote: Barifa is just a small environment compared to the whole Arua/Westnile to mind so much about the forest of euclaptus trees. Euclaptus trees should be removed as they are environmetal disaster in West Nile. It causes lowering of the water table thus drying the land making difficult for other small species around it not thrive. Re-invent the forest so that new more friendly type of trees are generated there along side other environmentally friendly activities that add value to the forest. This does not mean degazeting. Degazete parts of your homesteads from kevera dumping grounds to grow more forests of mangoes, bamboo, cyprus, pine, moringa, Avocado, jacaranda. Let each of us subscribing to this network go or send seeds to plant atleast an equivalent 0.5 km long row of the above trees in westnile this year. At a spacing of 4 metre wide to allow merry drive between. That means 100 trees only. Save 2 beers per week and get 3 jacaranda seedlings + save 60 minutes internet time per week and get 3 mango seedlings and 1 hour extra rest with your spouse. By end of the rain season this year, you have saved the region with 100 trees. I will save 3 out of my six Heineken to night to take care of this week. Physical planners in your country went to sleep about 1971 or 1979 and may not yet be fully awake. Those who are waking up are chasing developers from the tail. If you think i'm lying read about Kla's northern bypass and Ebb road or even about Barifa, Bat valley of Arua, Osu etc. Discuss Warm regards RObetia Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 15:18:45 +0000 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: Barifa Issue To: [email protected]; [email protected] CC: Friends, Many thanks for all your thoughts on Barifa. I do not know when some of you last went to Arua. Many things have changed of recent. Do we actually know the boundaries of this Arua Municipal we are talking about or the current land size and population distribution per division? Yes some of us do know. Arua airfield belongs to CAA not the municipality. The former gaagaa area and these others you are asking to be re planed have owners who also think, you have no right to plan for them where ever you are. I have learnt that, the re-planning of the current town has been on going. This will address some of the issues relating to infrastructure etc. But it is not an easy task because some of these landlords cannot just let go of their land. There seems to have been some disagreement on both the aerial and ground surveys initially carried out. Again, I invite Mr. Bada to help on this. The design for expansion and extension of the current water system is ongoing. I think, the municipal authorities are trying to address some of these issues we are raising. Even if degazzetted, municipal will invite private developers to develop the area and not the council since they do not have the resources to do so. In the same vein, some one able out there too can pay off the landlords in such areas you've chosen to identify as slum and re-develop it. You only need to consult with the municipal to avoid being re-planned again in future. There are many good things happening out there which we either do not know or have just refused to appreciate. Some members of this forum are big time REAL investors in Arua. Get to know them and find out more about existing opportunities. For sure, these developments will not Wait for any body fantasying new york in Arua should the opportunity arise even today. Lets just keep our ears to the ground. Xavier --- On Fri, 8/5/09, samuel andema <[email protected]> wrote: From: samuel andema <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: Barifa Issue To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 8 May, 2009, 12:37 AM Dear brothers and sister, I have read all your submissions on the degazetting of Barifa forest and the planned development of Arua. I sincerely appreciate all your contributions. But I would like as to separate the degazetting of Barifa and the need for a planned developpment of Arua. In my view the need for a comprehensive development of plan for the whole of Arua District should not depend on whether or not Barifa is degazetted. With or without the degazetting of Barifa, the Arua has one of the fasted population growth rates in Uganda and possibly the Great Lack Regions. The rate at which people are buying pieces of land in different parts of the periurban areas and buliding on these pieces of land without provision for passage of roads, water pipes, electricity lines etc is extremely alarming. People are building on their small pieces of land without taking into consideration the need to provide for basic infrastructure. It is tyhis kind of situation which to me is most alarming. The expected modern facilities to be build at Barifa should not be an isolated case. In my view we should be talking about an over all strategic development for the whole of Arua within which the possible degazetting or Barifa or not should fit. I am thoroughly opposed to any piece meal development of any kind be it Barifa or Obolokofoku or Gaagaa market because in the lonmg run it does not help us at all. It is for this reason that i still insist the priority should be to have a 50 or 100 years long term development plan which can then be reviewed periodically to ensure that it matches with the practical conditions of the times. Thank you. Sam Andema --- On Thu, 7/5/09, Vasco Oguzua <[email protected]> wrote: From: Vasco Oguzua <[email protected]> Subject: [WestNileNet] Re: Barifa Issue To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 7 May, 2009, 9:13 PM Congratulations and well done Mr. Drani. I think you have provided us with some well researched information and shed a better light on this Barifa issue. I hope the Mr. Bada can give us more information on what actually is happening. If indeed, that is the situation of the said piece of land, I think we need to find a way of putting pressure on the municipality and NFA to desist from degazetting the area for the suggested development. Yes, with the increasing population in general, the population of Arua town must have increased. If the available facilities were designed for only 10, 000 people as i read in Drani's piece, then the priority needs to be to improve the available amenities to meet the demands of the current population. That requires strategic and systematic planning to evaluate the current available areas where these people are living, not going to open a buffer forest that otherwise should protect the people and the town. If the Municipal Council rejected the idea of giving away the area opposite Catholic Centre, there should be no reason for them to accept going to Barifa. In the population in the town has increased, I am sure the patterns of locations where the population is increasing can be easily seen and a clear picture of whether such locations are properly planned should be reviewed. The slum areas within and around the municipality should be the priority areas of community housing developments and amenities improvements. With the increasing population and decreasing volume of Enyau River,which has been the source of water supply in in the town your years, I can see that water supply in Arua requires a very serious thought and priority. The numerous boreholes around the town may not be sustainable source of water because the rate at which water is mined is much higher than the rate at which the underground water is re-charged, with the environmental problems we have in the area. Water supply and sewerage infrastructure go hand in hand. So for the publics interest and for the interests of developing the municipality, I would still insist that the idea of degazetting Barifa should be thrown out. In a couple years to come, the Municipal Council and the public could actually get better economic returns from the area. Vasco Oguzua One at a time or all at once? 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