Ejiku, Christine, Patrick,
Thanks for your thoughts. Indeed time itself will tell. The thing which
is annoying is looking at people as if they are fools and cannot see what is
happening around and more so by our so called politicians. I was reading
Jackson's post on tobacco growing in Uganda and how much of that is coming from
West Nile. In terms of taxes to government, that is billions of shillings. If
taxes should give us services, even God knows that we as a people deserve
better than what we are getting. I guess this is where Moses story comes handy.
Recently, Nandala Mafabi urged that, when cows were dying in Western Uganda due
to prolonged drought, the then parliament he was in convened and passed a
supplementary budget to serve the cows. Now that children are dying of nodding
disease in norther Uganda, no one in government is bringing a request for a
supplementary budget in parliament. He wonders whether the government of the
day considers cows in the west more important than people in northern Uganda.
Ejiku, true, the cows require water that must be pumped from the streams using
electricity, hence there is demand in Kiruhura worth the six billion
investment, no demand in West Nile.
John Agami, in his writings in pursuit of the Independence of the Lado
people argues that one strategy the British used to fight the realization of
the Lado state was to recruit sons and daughters of Lado area into its ranks
who would argue against the independence of the Lado people or keep quiet when
the question of the Lado independence comes up in fora that take decisions.
Agami in one of his papers cited names as Joseph Lagu (in south sudan), Iddi
Amin and others. Today, we can substitute the quest of the independence of the
Lado people with the development needs, including power needs of West Nile and
the Lagus, Iddi Amins with names we know very well.
Christine, we had better begin expecting less and less and finally nothing from
our politicians, especially the MPs. As Ejiku pointed out, with a cabinet
reshuffle at the corners, the MPs of the bus are positioning themselves as the
good ones. No one wants to be caught at the wrong side, no one wants to bad
mouth the appointing authority. If a motion to sell off part of west nile to
either Congo or south Sudan came on the flow of parliament today, these MPs
would say 'aye' to the contrary 'nay' to get a cabinet appointment.
Ismail
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From: Robert Ejiku <[email protected]>
To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 10:37
Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE POWER LOST AGAIN
Dear all,
Very interesting arguments I must say. I think the real thing should be where
is Nyagak and not whether we should be connected to the nat. grid or
not?!!!!!!! What our demand is and whether it is enough to get us on the nat
grid!!!!!????
I know Kiruhura has just got a project of over 6billion to connect villages in
Kazo to the National grid which our good Dujanga commissioned recently. I can
bet the villages of Kiruhura do not have even the demand of 1MW. Anyway cows
require water to be pumped from the streams!!!
If the President could only concentrate on when the 3.5MW will be on, he would
have sounded smarter. Now he is "all hats and no cows" just like the Texans
say.
Good deliberations folks but ofcourse most politicians from West Nile will
never discuss this seriously because a cabinet reshuffle is largely expected
soon and like Christine puts it, there is still time. God will one time smile
at us. This is a test that Moses and his sheep faced in the desert. We are
being tested and we should remain strong in the face of this massive neglect.
Time itself will tell.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Christine Munduru <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,
> I share your sentiments. I dont know how there can be demand when there is no
>supply. How do people build factories in a place without power just in a hope
>that their will one day be power? This is purely foolery and our politicians
>just sit and listen to such abuses. I would want to hear from our leaders what
>they are doing about this given that our Municipal MP is an engineer and
>therefore technical person in this area and this was one of his strong points
>for campaign. One reason why the president keeps mentioning this is to see if
>westnilers will out reason him but nothing is coming up strongly and he will
>continue to fool us.We need not camplain "under the armpit" but we need facts
>and figures to "name and shame" like we did for the road. Unfortunately our
>people were bought with bottles of beer, waragi, Kwete etc during the
>campaigns and we willingly though blindly gave our votes already and he knows
>that for the next five years he is
covered. And probably our leaders also know that for the next five years, they
are covered and therefore they dont care about issues affecting their voters.
How does a president stand there each time to say the same thing without nobody
opposing him and people just clap and nod their heads in happiness?
>
>Christine
>
>
>On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:03 AM, anguzu yumaa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Elly: Thanks for keeping us informed on this bad news.
>>
>>
>>Ismail: You are spot on. I couldn't agree with you more. It beats my
>>understanding for someone to assert that first we have to have a power demand
>>of 7.5 mega watts in order to qualify for the national grid. What does this
>>actually mean? As a lay man I have failed to understand these things. Does it
>>mean that we should mobilize all our people to first take power lines to
>>their houses, wire their houses and wait to be counted as among those
>>demanding for power? Does it mean having industrialists coming to this
>>region, building many factories and waiting to be counted among those
>>demanding for power? What should come first? The power or the factories? Who
>>determines the demand for power? Is there no bias? Could it be that someone
>>still wants WENRECo. to continue minting money from West Nile until they
>>recover their investment costs or until after they break even? Turning to the
>>continuous changing of the dates for switching on Nyagak, this really
stinks!! This really shows our importance in the National Politics. (May be we
deserve this)
>>
>>
>>Dr. Anguzu Yumaa Patrick
>>P.O.Box 701 Arua, Uganda, East Africa.
>>Telephone: +256476421367 - Home
>> +256772696200 - Mobile
>>e-mail: [email protected]
>>
>>“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why
>>it's called the present. ”
>>There's never a "right time" to wait for. So whenever you get the chance,
>>take a risk.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>> From: banduga ismail <[email protected]>
>>To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 9:36 AM
>>Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE POWER LOST AGAIN
>>
>>
>>
>>Elly,
>>
>>
>>Many of us, me inclusive have always argued that for West Nile to see what
>>other regions have seen requires a regime change. This government under
>>Museveni will not do us anything even if all of us bow down to lick his
>>shoes. Yesterday, I was talking to a friend on phone who is actually sick in
>>bed. In our talk, we predicted that the International Womens' Day national
>>celebrations in Nebbi will offer the president and his ministers
>>another platform to lie to the people of West Nile. This is what I read in
>>you piece below.
>>
>>
>>The Anites, Aridrus, Dujangas don't know the man they are dealing with. They
>>will be used to say all the lie they can say until they lose face in front of
>>their electorates. Maybe that is when they will realize that they should
>>have done otherwise. Was it not Aridru (whom people thought came as
>>a savior) recently on radio talk show together with Mike Mukula from Soroti,
>>who said after one month (meaning in March), Nyagak will be switched on. By
>>the way, Mukula was sarcastic enough to say the past governments, including
>>the one of Iddi Amin failed to solve the power problem in West Nile and the
>>NRM government is trying to fix it, so people should be patient. Was it not
>>Museveni who was reported to have said that the people of West Nile are
>>asking for power and yet he sees grass thatched houses everywhere?
>>
>>
>>Where I am now is as rural as our sub counties of beleafe, Romogi, keyi etc.
>>Do you know what is happening here? They are being connected to the national
>>grid. Power lines have run all over. Have anyone of you been to this place
>>called Lamwo? That is where Onek Hillary comes from, bordering south Sudan.
>>If the rural sub counties here can assess the national grid, without
>>any viable economic potential, why can't Arua? Who does not see the economic
>>viability of Arua and West Nile in general?
>>
>>
>>I hope the district councils will pick on the advise to institute a special
>>memorandum they can present to government. If they are wise, they should
>>constitute public hearings about power in the West Nile region to build the
>>memorandum.
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>> From: Nayenda Elly <[email protected]>
>>To: [email protected]
>>Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2012, 19:00
>>Subject: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE POWER LOST AGAIN
>>
>>
>>West Nilers,
>>We have again lost a serious opportunity to have us on the national power
>>grid.
>>The President while addressing the nation on the International Women's day
>>anniversary at Nebbi Secondary school today, said for us to have the national
>>grid we need power demand of 7.5mw. I couldn't come to terms with the
>>President's stand that West Nile power demand is 2.5 mega watts thus the 3.5
>>mw from Nyagak will suffice for our need.
>>
>>I hold Hon Dujanga squarely responsible for this under estimation of west
>>nile power demand. The current demand in Arua alone is more than 2mw leave
>>alone industrial need. Can some body technical enough serve us with the
>>actual power demand not supply for west nile.
>>
>>I pray all the District Local Councils of Nebbi, Zombo, Arua, Maracha, Koboko
>>and Yumbe institute a special council report to President's office on this
>>issue.
>>
>>Hon Dujanga once again promised that Nyagak will be switched on in two months
>>time i.e May yet during Hon Anite's wedding he promised march. Why speak
>>untruth in the presence of the President?
>>
>>We need power this year, Period. Or else;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>MPs have not lived to their commitment on this issue of power.
>>The test of a man is not in falling but standing up upon falling. Keep the
>>struggle folks.
>>Elly
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