Dear all, Thanks for all the valuable contributions. I support the idea of this University. The fact is, the process has already started and some money has already been allocated and we have no reason to throw away the idea. Whether it is for campaign purpose or not, let us take it and put pressure before the campaigns to ensure that work is in progress. There will be no excuse to abandon it after the campaigns. However, I am abit dissappointed at the delay of things and why it has been a secret all this time.If we continue to be too busy to start anything up to the time of campaigns, then it will surely be a campaign gimmick and we shall be the loosers. If the task force is busy, let them make people know about it and they should be open about what is going on. We have so many highly placed educationists all over the higher institutions in Uganda who can help guide this process. We need a small pressure group to follow this up and volunteers from WNF and others we think are well placed to do this should proceed to follow it up. This is the right time to put the pressure and it should be public so that we dont blame them falsely. It will be a shame to hear in future that we were given this chance but our taskforce was too busy to work on it. Thanks Munduru
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Charles Male <[email protected]> wrote: From: Charles Male <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] A Public University in West Nile To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 12:55 AM Dear Caleb, Bako, et all, Thanks for the update. I am just wondering why the task force members for this University not be engaged full time? At least the Chair - should eb able to work full time, supported by a secretariat. If they are all busy on their regular jobs and working on the university on a part-time basis - it might take years, funds will be exhausted and then the whole idea dropped. Bako, you indicated that you are handling the issue of possible sabotage politically -- could you kindly indicate whether you are engaging other MPs from the region? I very much like the idea of a volunteer group to support the taskforce and advocate for the fast tracking of the university. Please don't limit the membership of the volunteer group to academia. Civil society members should be part of the group including other educationists and concerned people from WN. I see Mr. Avinyia - former Principal of Muni NTC, Yosa Wawa, Caleb Alaka etc being members of this volunteer group. Charles On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: Dear All, I was with the minister of education on monday and she has told me of the work in progress so far and Dr. Christine is working hard with her team to ensure that things like the take off academic programs are in place. Indeed a vote(budget line) will be on next financial year for this university. I am also aware of some sabotage in the ministry and i am trying to handle that politically at the moment and will be updating you accordingly. My problem now is the slow papce of events, Christine needs all our support and WNF is indeed a valuable partner in this process. Kind regards to you all, God bless! Bako Christine Abia MP Arua, Terego-Maracha districts banduga ismail writes: Dear Alaka, Thank you for bringing up this and doing the extra work of asking the questions. If WNF can partake in the fast tracking of the establishment of this university, then WNF would have made a difference in the lives of the people of West Nile. In my opinion WNF should partake and can do so as a civil society organization. I do't have a name to suggest now, will certainly do so in the a few days to come. Thank you, banduga Ismail ---------------------------------- ________________________________ From: Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 2 February, 2010 14:10:45 Subject: [WestNileNet] A Public University in West Nile Dear Colleagues, Last Week on Thursday, I had a meeting with Hon. Jachan Omach. Minister of state for Finance (General duties). This meeting was as a result of an earlier meeting I had with the PPS to H.E the President. I had gone to see the PPS to fix an appointment for Asiku Jackson to see the President. But since I had known the PPS during the times we negotiated peace in West Nile and Juba. I reluctantly asked her about the University. She referred me to Hon. Jachan. In our meeting Jachan was grateful to learn about the West Nile Foundation. He told me that there are over 150 pledges the President made for the people of West Nile which needs to be followed. He further informed me that a National task force for the University headed by Professor Christine Dranzua (From MUK), had been formed. that we had lost six months. that other members of the task force were Rev. Father Epifani Odubiki the Principle of Lodonga TTC, Professor Tikodri the Deputy Vice Chancellor MUK and some one from Gulu University. The Ministry of Finance has released 200 Million UgShs and another 700 Million Shs is going to be released to the task force . Colleagues, These guys on the National task force are busy people. I was in MUST over the weekend and discussed the issue with our colleagues in MUST and we thought we can come up with our own committee especially the members of the academia from West Nile to assist the National task force. If this is acceptable to us, we can suggest names and I will handle the matter with Hon. Jachan Omach who is also from West Nile. This way, we can fast track the establishment of the University. _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). 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