Hello brothers and sisters I have been following our debates with joy seeing the way we are focusing on issues. The topic being debated was meant to last for two weeks and we pass to another topic. As the one who tried to moderate this topic I wish to inform us that we should close this topic this coming Sunday (October 24). Our sister Christine Munduru will take over the moderation on the theme that Jackson mentioned "Youth unemployment and substance abuse: causes and what to do in the face of these"
I feel some concrete points on civic education and development issues can still be sent to the secretary to be included for summaries. I would like to share with you this testimony from Kisoro that happened in the last political elections. A then deputy minister went to the Boda Boda guys wanting to give them 5,000 ugx so that he be voted. The boda boda guys sat down to do their simple arithmetics and divided that amount by 5 years that the candidate will be in Parliament before coming back to them again to beg votes. Then they divided the 1,000 ugx by the 12 months of the year and they found out that this guy wanted to buy them at 83 shillings per month and 2.80 shillings per day. They refused to give the votes and refused his money. We need our collective conscience as West Nilers to be educated in the right sense. Lets continue to remain focused. Vasco nice stated "While we can still debate the manifestos of our aspiring politicians, we probably may need to get down to finding strategies of how we can do some of these things for ourselves rather than think that we are going to elect people who will do these things for us." I dont care about parties, i have never voted in my life for Uganda, my vocation calls me to support people not parties. Let's concentrate on these developmental issues of our region that cut across parties, religion, ethnic belongings etc The points are being synthesized. Any volunteers who would like to moderate forth coming debates should willingly come up. May God bless West Nile! Ruffino
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