Hello Dear Colleagues! It is not a nice thing to hear that the authorities of Arua Municipality are abandoning their jewel, the green belt (the forest and the golf field). I think a city is not just beautiful because it has high-rise "glass" buildings but that it has some green park where people can go to rest, have some fresh air, read books, etc. What kind of devil is deceiving people to think that selling out those places to do other things will be the best thing? People must know how to appreciate the beauty of their surrounding. Arua is one of the most beautiful towns in Uganda because of the forest and the golf field. Now if we lose that what else shall we have yet there are no other alternatives? Being on Eagle Air one time I was proud within myself to feel about our town when a passenger (a non-WestNiler) on the same flight remarked, as we approached the airport, that "Arua is beautifully green!" Do we want to lose our jewel, beauty and thus our pride?
So, as members have reacted and continue to react, I also appeal to our colleagues on the ground not to sit and see things get out of hand. They should get to dig out the facts from different sources that can help them with details so that they can tackle this matter immediately. One other thing that has destroyed Uganda today is doing things under cover. Because of it, there have been too many grave and costly mistakes committed. As for the green belt-which is already in itself a tool fighting global warming, we should not let things happen as we see. It should happen elsewhere not in Arua! Merry Christmas to you all! Andrua On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, PHILIP ASINDUA <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I think the slogan of acting "on orders from above" should not be > intertained and every person hiding behind such slogans should be put to > task to prove that they have followed the necessary procedures to acquire > such pieces of land. In any case barifa forest is in Arua municipality and > the municipal authorities who have applied for de-gazetting it and spent > money in the process and who have a mandate to plan and oversee development > in the municipality need to take a lead to establish the persons behind all > these and give us a picture of what is happening. > > Philip > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As you are all aware, Barifa forest is one of the Central Government >> Forest reserves. Some two or so years ago, Arua Municipal Council attempted >> to expand and extend its boundaries for a better planned Town. The Municipal >> then applied to the National Forest Authority to have Barifa de-gazetted. >> NFA accepted on condition that the Municipal Council got an alternative land >> for the forest. Municipal then got land worth 100 Million Shillings in >> Logiri and it has been paying for the land. I understand the Municipal >> Council intended to re-plan Barifa into a new Arua Town. Now some people >> have emerged from nowhere claiming that they are acting "on orders from >> above" and they have been clearing Barifa forest. The RDC Arua is the one >> purportedly supervising these people who have moved several trucks on the >> land. For us to act as WNF, we need a resolution and or a consent of the >> members so that we instruct our lawyers to file a suit stopping these guys >> from constructing any thing on the land and evicting them. If this situation >> is not arrested, Arua Municipal Council will loose the 100 Million >> shillings, we shall not have a better planned town and we shall in the words >> of the Bishop be worthless. What is your take on this >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WestNileNet mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet >> >> WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> All Archives can be found at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. >> _______________________________________________ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________ > >
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