My brothers and sisters Greetings. I hope we are all looking forward to the forth coming elections. Many a time we reduce politics only to campaign time and when our representatives get elected they don’t account to the electorate at all. We seek constant transformation of the lives of the people in West Nile. There is need of some civic education in this regard.
One Forum member had shared on this net that “Politics is in the air but what questions should we be asking ourselves and our leaders to be?” You are invited to share ideas, vision and challenges facing us in our region of West Nile. To make the issues we discuss more coherent and consistent, I am volunteering to moderate the discussions and our brother Avudria will document points raised and give us summaries (eg every week) so that we don’t recycle the same points over and over. Our brothers and sisters media centres (which could become Information Committee in future) could disseminate these through the media (print, digital and Radios). This is a professional network of friends. No Personal Attacks. If you have a different opinion from someone, raise your points in a professional manner. After a couple of weeks, our sister Christine Munduru has accepted to moderate. In case there are other volunteers to do this, they are welcome. Our topic for the next two weeks goes around the topic of *policies*. There are 35 possible presidential candidates who have expressed interest in contesting for the Big Office. We hear cries of uneven playing field but *what coherent set of policy issues which define or characterise each political party do we see?* Manifestos are ideological and worked well under communism. 1. Do NRM, DP, UPC, FDC have *clear sets of policy outlines* with respect to, for instance (i) Healthcare; (ii) Education; (iii) Foreign Affairs; (iv) Information Technology (v) Agriculture & Tourism; (vi) Energy Sector; and (vii) Public Expenditure, and are these policies clearly differentiated in terms of their intent and *how they will be achieved?* 2. If there are no clear differences are our people *deciding between ideologies and personalities* and therefore *do not care to find out about the important policy questions?* If the policy is to increase healthcare spending, *what percentage of the GDP is expected to go to healthcare, where is that money going to come from given that the sources of government revenue are known? What will be the impact on the other sectors?* What will be the *key priorities?* What is the *proposed implementation mechanism?* Your contributions are welcome. Share from the angle where you feel we need to focus. Fr Ruffino EZAMA, mccj
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