Fellow Members,
Although it was not my interest to discuss the merits of Regional Tier on this
forum as I had stated in my last article, I have to apologize to you all that I
am writing again about this same issue of Regional Tier in response to the
response I read, especially Charles Male's observations.
Charles Male stated in his observations, I quote, " we should cease and desist
from criticizing the legitimate government of Uganda if we want to West Nile
Net to be a forum to discuss development of West Nile region". I am kind of
surprised by this observation, especially from some one like Charles whom I
would consider a learned intellectual with the ability to rationally
understand, analyze and interpret if there is any relationship between the
development of Uganda in general or West Nile with respect to the legimimate
government. Is it not the responsibility of this legitimate government to
proivide services to the citizens who have given them the legitimacy to rule.
Must the same citizens sit quiet whe services are no provided to them by this
legitimate government? If the basic services for the well being of the citizens
are not provided by the legitimate government, who should the poor citizens
ask?
The argument Mr. Male has made about the many colleagues working for the
government and or receiving funding from the government thus the danger for
their jobs or funding is exactly what I already mentioned in my previous
article that, the citizens are being made to feel the government is doing them
a favour by being employed in the civil service or the funding received. What I
do not understand is whether these employments or funding are favours and not
legitimate, though legitimate government should have professional civil service
and funding for activities of its citizen.
The naive observation made by Mr. Male was due to his personal misunderstanding
of the context in which I wrote that article and I think Mr. Benard tried to
assist Male in understanding the context of my article. However, I was and am
not surprised by Mr. Males views for he has in the past directly attacked other
counties in West Nile who have MPs not aligned with the government and blames
the lack of development in West Nile to the fact that we have opposition MPs in
the government. The only question I have ever asked Mr. Male is that has the
counties in West Nile who have MPs supporting the legitimate government
developed better than the other counties which have opposition MPs? To this
question I have never received an answer.
What Mr. Male has failed to see is the suffering of the citizens when they
cannot afford the basic amenities of life as normal human beings. The reason
why we are at this stage of discussing the development of West Nile region is
because the government has failed in its role as the caretaker of the citizens.
Can Mr. Male tell me why there are more NGOs in Uganda now than before 25 to 30
years ago? While we discuss West Nile development on this forum we must bear in
mind that we are doing so because of enormous failure of a legitimate
government. The citizens of a country must not be from a government, because
they own the government as they are the ones that vote in the government and if
legitimate government has not provided the basic necessities of living to the
citizens, the citizens have an obligation and a right to question the
legitimate government.
But one fact is clear and still remains, that we have a failed government in
Uganda that does not cater for the basic needs of the citizen and I have
mentioned three areas, of Education, Health and Agriculture and would Mr. Male
to tell me where the government has done some exemplary work, it alone
travelling from Koboko to Maracha Hospital by car taking almost when it is only
a distance of less than 12 miles.
If this article I wrote is perceived by Mr. Male as being against the
government and not in his favour that he wants to be removed from the forum, I
am not surprised because this is the same Male who expressed a strong rejection
for the West Nile forum at the early stages of the this Forum and wanted this
forum to be based on tribal bases or local affiliations as he has done with the
Koboko forum. I think we are and can be larger than the individual.
Mr. Male must know that a legitimate government that does not provide for the
citizens that voted in the legitimate government is a failed and I repeat a
FAILED legitimate government.
Thank you.
Vasco Oguzua
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