Dear all, Based on Mr. Alaka’s mail dated “Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:20 AM” to the net on “Member ship/Subscription to WNF” I would like to comment on these *two*issues :
*1. Membership to the WNFoundation. * Mr. Alaka indicated that We incorporated WNF as a body corporate with capacity to transact any business in its own name. We developed the Mid term Strategic Plan. We are to establish a secretariat to operationalise and achieve the objectives of the Foundation. We developed the Mid term Strategic Plan. We are to establish a secretariat to operationalise and achieve the objectives of the Foundation. We* did agree on the annual membership fee. To date we shy away from paying the same* (emphasis mine). Although I remember something to the effect of a set membership fee, I could not get the reference. (I suppose my skills of back searching archived mail in the net is not very good) However, considering the fact that some members on this net, like me, are still confused on this agreed upon membership fee (kindly refer to brother Achile Fendru’s letter on Feb 23rd plus related discussions up to Feb 24th https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12e53a2960eb3c77<?shva=1#inbox/12e53a2960eb3c77>), you will do the NET a great service if you brought out these documents/references here AGAIN. From the related discussions based on Fendru’s reminder, it is clear to me that the majority of potential members are not aware that “We did agree on the annual membership fee”. Pleeeeease, Mr. Alaka or whoever in the leadership of the WNF is responsible, I request you kindly to i) highlight and reference these documents; and, ii) guide the members AGAIN, on the payment modalities I think, this might be one of the things holding the operationalization of the membership fee and with it, a lot of other things in the mid term Strategic Plan. Or are there some who went ahead and already paid membership? How many people then are in this category? *2. Carrying out the business of the WNFoundation. * A few minutes later, another mail from Mr. Alaka, dated “Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:37 AM” under the subject[image: https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif]”[WestNileNet] Get together Party with our newly elected Political Leaders”, went ahead and noted how the WNF (not the net) “*intends*” to “[*o]**rganize an interactive get together party for the newly elected Members of Parliament, L.C V chairpersons, Mayors, opinion leaders, Business community and C.A.O's from West Nile.*” scheduled, tentatively, for 26th March 2011. From this mail, members of the Net (many of who – including I – may not be members of the WNF yet), are informed among others, that: *“The President of the Republic of Uganda may be the Chief Guest. This get together is intended to ensure that we begin a new chapter in the Political history of West Nile. We need to join hands as West Nilers to push our development agenda. “ * I will not comment on the apparent seriousness of this event, considering that the president is scheduled to be the GoH. However, I wish to note this: While such moves in the name of the WNF are commendable *especially if done in the name of the WN-Foundation *(not the Net), I think it is high time the leadership did better in *mobilizing membership to the WN-Foundation* than what they seem to be doing so far. It would be a shame after you have struggled to have the organization registered to fail to get members registered into it. What is the matter? What is happening? That’s it for now. Maandera On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:20 AM, alaka caleb <[email protected]> wrote: > Colleagues, > > We incorporated WNF as a body corporate with capacity to transact any > business in its own name. We developed the Mid term Strategic Plan. We > are to establish a secretariat to operationalise and achieve the > objectives of the Foundation. We did agree on the annual membership > fee. To date we shy away from paying the same. We must appreciate that > to-date, we are on this forum because Kigs is magnanimous. To host us > needs a server and this means that some one is incurring costs. Lets > be clear on this one. We can all be on this forum which is interactive > and informative. It has assisted us a lot. But being on this forum > does not mean that we are members of West Nile Foundation. Yes If we > support the Foundation, it may in future sustain the cost of not only > hosting this forum but also its own website. So can we be honourable > and start contributing our membership fees to the Foundation to enable > us execute its objectives. > _______________________________________________ > 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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