My dear Brothers and Sisters of West Nile, I am a bit impressed by what I have lately, read about wonderful developments beginning to take place in our region. First, I want to thank and congratulate the group that assembled the Science Cafe and put it into the cyber world. In particular regard, I thank the protagonist-Mrs Christine Munduru and the technician, Fr Stephen Ogua, who built the website. May God bless you for this wonderful work. Indeed, time has come for all to be counted. It is not right for us to be at the receiving end, I mean, we shouldn't only read about other people but they should also know and find who are and what we do and are capable of doing. Secondly, about the plans to build Arua Airport into an International Terminal, it is long over due were it not for dirty politics. But we have a reason to smile (or not yet), perhaps to push for more. It would have been better to build a huge International Airport with a capacity to accommodate at least 100,000 passengers than a small thing of 200 people. The question I always ask myself is why should Uganda or West Nile be satisfied with a bare minimum as though the world were shrinking? Are we excluded from dreaming of big things? Anyhow, that is not the issue, I still want to draw our attention back to the idea of ELECTRICITY. All these development will be accelerated if there is electricity (we must understand why people refer to it as POWER). Without this how does an International Airport operate let alone many other development activities in our area? I think, all these demands must go side by side. At this stage I would demand for POWER before the Airport. It doesn't, however, mean that we don't need it now, we do but as I said, electricity will help other sectors of the economy in our area, think about businesses, schools, factories, etc. That is all I wanted to submit.
To all Christian brothers and sisters, I wish you a fruitful Lenten (fasting) season! To the Muslim brothers and sisters and others I wish you God's blessings! Andrua On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:55 AM, aggrey adrale <[email protected]>wrote: > Ojoatre Kaka Tom and Adiga Godi, > > Thank you for your concerns about the Arua International Airport. > > Just to offer an update, I chanced to fluke an inspection with the CAA > Board and Management that was in Arua on 7th Feb 2011. I think it is no > longer to lobby but to press for the speedy completion since the Arua > International Airport proposal has already been granted. > > Already the shell for the passenger terminal house and associated offices > is complete up to the roof canopy, pending fittings for the functionality of > the house. The house is a little hidden, northwards behind the staff and > security uniports, that may be the reason many residents and people who have > gone to the current passenger terminal of the airfield have not easily > noticed this development. I think that is one great step ahead. > > I presume, jointly we have a good opportunity to press for a speedy > completion through the forth-coming gathering and other fora as you have > suggested. We further have another good opportunity to press for the speedy > completion through one of our own Hon Dr. Eng Gabriel Aridru, MP-Elect for > Arua Municipality, who is an incumbent Board Member of CAA - the Client. > > God bless all our efforts as we pursue this dream come true. > > Aggrey Adrale Fetaa > > > --- On *Tue, 8/3/11, Kaaka Ojoatre <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Kaaka Ojoatre <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Time to Lobby for Arua International Airport. > To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, 8 March, 2011, 8:41 > > Thank you for this proposal...I support it entirely and I think it is > overdue that WN got an international standard airport. Keep the focus!!! > > Ojoatre Kaaka Tom > Juja Town > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Adiga Godi > <[email protected]<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Dear all, > I just read that Arua Air port will be up graded to accomodate 200 people > and that the run way will be tarmac. In the past there was a talk about > making this air port an international one. Kasese gets the big upgrade > instead of Arua. > Is this not the right time for our organization to lobby for a better air > port before work starts for the proposed up grade? The president is supposed > to be invited to attend our " Meet the new MPs and Mayors" get together and > what an oportunity to introduce the topic of the international air port at > this time! Is it too early to start asking him for the things which he did > not do for West Nile? > What do you all think about this? > Would love to hear us talk about this topic. > Thanks. > Adiga Godi. > > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected]<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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. > _______________________________________________ > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected]<http://uk.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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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