I would like to register my disagreement in the boldest terms with what the good learned counselor has stated and suggested in here. If the going gets tuff, throwing in the towel is not the solution. First of all, I never saw the vehement opposition on the idea of WNF that the counselor is talking about on this forum. On the contrary my take was that it was well received with excitement, enthusiasm and joy. The only skirmishes I saw was about the what, where, how and to who to pay. Besides, if there were or are any voices of dissent, we should try to understand why, see if there is any validity and genuine justification to it and try to see if they have any suggestions that can be incorporated to make the foundation better. Remember every new good and noble idea/innovation/invention historically has always met with stiff skeptism, challenges and sometimes lethal opposition. Those who succeed are not the ones when kicked and knocked down remain down there, but rather those who can be able to get up after the kick, dust themselves off and keep on moving forward.
I will appeal to Mr. Alaka to reconsider his suggested action and consult widely with some of the able members in the forum or on the ground who can help steer the foundation to its successful objective. We need this and we need you Mr. Alaka to be part of this. West Nile region has benefited a lot from your wisdom, hardwork and unselfish contributions in the various activities. Now is not the time to let go. On a lighter note, having been born and raised in Lugazi, I am a proud product of the Kasanvu (Sugarcane Harvester). Believe me when I say that under difficulties many of them were able to educate their kids and those of their relatives. I am a case in point. I would not wish to over generalize and paint all of them with the same brush as being inferior in their thinking. Thank you. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:18 AM, alaka caleb <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > > Some time last year, we tried to build a consensus on payment of > subscription fees of 50,000/= Uganda Shillings for West Nile > Foundation. This idea was vehemently opposed by several members. Some > even pretended that they had never seen the strategic plan, the > memorandum and articles of association of WNF. Other members suggested > that we should go slow on issues of money. As a result to-date we have > no secretariat to co-ordinate our activities. We can't implement or > move any thing. Members what do we do?. Should we all abandon this > idea of having an umbrella organization. We have resisted all good > ideas, from West Nile night, the Investment Club, and even the Science > Cafe which records miserable attendances. We are comfortable and we > actively involve our selves in smaller or sectarian organizations, > when it comes to the bigger picture we sit back and savor the idea of > our leaders failing. We have forgotten that Kigs uses money to host > the West Nile net. He and Gordon Obitre-Gama had to import a server > from USA to host the net. We have taken advantage of their magnanimity > and abused it. What if they one time get fed up. By now we should have > had our own website. I think the idea of a West Nile Foundation and > the West Nile Net or forum should be discarded. Some of us were useful > to our community without these organizations, We can still be useful > without them. Lets agree to dissolve the Forum and the Foundation. > Lets concentrate on our Local Counties, Districts, Old boys/girls > organizations in our old schools were we are more comfortable, tribes > and probably religion. Without payment of subscription fees, we have > no right to belong to and hold an organization and its leadership > accountable. Lets wind up the WNF and if our treasurer has > contributions by some members let him arrange to refund them. We > resisted the idea of a Ministry for West Nile affairs and now other > regions have Ministries. West Nile doesn't deserve us. We lied to > ourselves that we are of the Golden generation. But at this rate we > are worse than our ' Kasamvu' (Sugar cane cutter) relatives. For they > were not as enlightened as we are. > _______________________________________________ > 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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