Dear Ismail, Thank you for your contribution to this debate. I just want to make a small clarification. From what I know, Dr. Ronald Jelly Onzima was competing for the NRM MP slot in Ayivu Constituency, which he lost to Mr. Ben Dravile. I wonder if Dr. Onzima is still trying the MP slot on independent NRM slot. Dr. Onzima has a background in Agriculture. He worked at the then Kawanda Research Station for a long time until when he joined African Development Bank advising on Coffee issues. If I'm not mistaken at least the last 30 or so years of his life were spent on that until when he recently retired. It would really be too premature for him to comment on fundamental issues of development in West Nile. He needs a little more time to know and acquaint himself with West Nile. Dr. Onzima hails from Aroi Sub County but has a home in Mvara - Zambia Cell. Over to you Ismail, you may pour more on the fallacies of Dr. Onzima. Aggrey Adrale
--- On Wed, 2/2/11, banduga ismail <[email protected]> wrote: From: banduga ismail <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Is this article for article really what has happened in West Nile in the last 25 years. To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 2 February, 2011, 11:56 Brothers and Sisters, I read the said article. As one who lives in West Nile, I find it nothing but fallacy what Onzima is talking. Anyway, he is entitled to his opinion. But I can without mincing my words say that Onzimas' writings are not based on any empirical research and do not represent the true picture of West Nile. I can see that Onzima just wants to get the support of the NRM particularly at this time of his campaigns, more so where he is competing with a sitting minister for the MP slot. Onzimas' thinking is one thing I find strange with this regime, a regime with many professors and philosophers in government, but with no vision at all. Professors and philosohers whose viewpoints are nothing but falsehood. The ordinary person knows that UPE has not and cannot help us at all if continued in its current form. And it is strange that a Dr. cannot see this. Onzima should tell us which UPE schools his children go to. A policy that commercializes tertiary education is what Onzima calls good policy. Today, Onzima maybe able to pay for his children fees for tertiary education (University/college) because of his savings from the regional job portifolio he held as a result of his high education. Onzima should tell us how many parents in his village in Vurra are able to do so and their children can also become doctors like him? One can read from his arguments that he (Onzima) would like to see himself as the only doctor in that village. The regime Onzima is praising is busy building a middle class (those who have the knowledge and money) in uganda. Dr. Onzima cannot see that this middle class is skwed to the western region where the NRM leadership comes from. How many bus companies do we have from West Nile as compared to Western Uganda? Aren't this buses obtained using loan facilities? Doesn't this tell Dr. Onzima that there is a regional differential disparity in the execution of the loan facilities? Or does he think the people from West Nile are not interested in loans. Has Dr. Onzima forgotten that Amama Mbabazi confessed they desperately needed money to secure their shares in KCB oe else lose them to Kenyans and needed to sell their land in Temangalo and arm twisted Jamwe to buy this land at an inflated unit cost, using the workers savings in NSSF? Isn't that case in the courts of law? Doctor, if this is the way you look at West Nile after 25 years of NRM management or is it mismanagement, then its better to deal with the devil you know than the saint you do not know. As Besigy said last saturday in Arua, do you know where the yellow bus is coming from and where it is going? Or are you just a broker of the bus? From: Vasco Oguzua <[email protected]> To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]>ds Sent: Wed, 2 February, 2011 1:21:18 Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Is this article for article really what has happened in West Nile in the last 25 years. Dear Brothers and Sisters, I read this article from New Vision and wonder if that is really what has happened in West Nile in the last 25 years of NRM rule. http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/459/745378 A government that has relied on NGO intervention to meet most of the basic needs of its citizens, and where NGOs are and have actually taken over key state functions like providing for health, welfare and safety of citizens, poverty alleviation, girls’ education, negotiation for peace, strengthening of legal and policy frameworks; promotion of democracy, etc is a government with a failed policies . A government like the present regime in Uganda which has failed to develop internal capacity and skills necessary to run the country effectively other than entrenching corruption in all walks of life is what Dr. Ronald Jelly Onzima is praising, especially when he claims West Nile has achieved a lot from NRM policies is what I have failed to conceive from the learned son of West Nile. Is he living in another West Nile from the same West Nile where we all come from. I would think that Dr. Ronald can be honest enough to know that any country which has good development policies and internal capacity to financially survive should show evidence in infrastructure development that encompasses building better physical infrastructure - roads, other means of transportation, electricity, communication capability and a clean water supply - needed to operate an effective health care system. What we see in Uganda are impassable roads and weak transportation systems that impede economic activities and growth. Health care that is almost non existent, with those diseases like polio, yellow fever which were long eradicated coming back, frequent cholera and other communicable disease epidemics, education system that is rotten and only benefits a few sons/daughters of the few rich while the majority of the sons and daughters of the poor are lamenting in schools where educational infrastructure are lacking and at best non existent. I wonder what progress Dr. Ronald Jelly Onzima is writing about in West Nile in the last 25 years brought by good policies of NRM. Has he ever seen the offices of the RDC and the Police HQ in Arua and the other Offices like that of Education, Works, Agriculture , Veterinary in Arua to talk of good policies. The building of the road from Karuma to Arua is not any favour done to the people of West Nile, the trade between West Nile and DRC and South Sudan was not created by good policies of NRM but the strategic location of that region to both countries which we have not tapped enough. It is amazing to talk of NRM bringing security to West Nile when they were infact the people who contributed to the insecurity in West Nile let alone the whole Uganda. Some years back many parents from the South used to send their kids to schools like Ombaci, Mvara, Nyapea, Koboko in West Nile, I wonder if those are still happening as our brother Dr. Ronald Jelly Onzima has presented if the NRM education policy is really so wonderful that it has benefitted West Nile in the last 25 years. I really would like to know if this is really true forum members as this is something that is written by one of our own. Was it not a sometime last year or so that an Education Committee was set by WNF to look into why schools in West Nile are doing so badly in both Primary and secondary schools and the number of Students in West Nile joining higher institutions has drastically reduced to to the bad policies of NRM.!!! 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