Thank you Mr. Tabu Butagira for bringing up this issue to remind us about the plight of the ordinary people who are enduring this discrimination at Pakwach. I do believe our elected officials who should have been at the forefront of this issue have never experienced the discrimination, as such they have never felt the pain of these inspections at Pakwach. On several occasions when coming to Kampala, I have had serious exchanges with the security officials as to why they are asking for IDs when not everyone in Uganda has not been issued an ID. I remember this one time when they almost did not want to go because I intentionally refused to show them my ID, and some other passenger whom they probably knew intervened and they let me go. With Tabu's article in the Monitor newspaper, this issue is now a national issue which we must as a community push. I would suggest that instead of approaching these elected officials who have never thought of addressing this issue as they travel constantly to and from Kampala through Pakwach, we have draft a petition and deliver it to the Speaker of the parliament in person. We need to do the relevant reach which provides us with the right ammunition for the petition and follow it at Parliament as concerned civic group from West Nile. Perhaps because our elected officials are not affected by this ID inspections, they do not seem to feel the pain of the ordinary people. I think the ball is in our court to take the necessary steps to address this issue which I believe should not have a political insinuation in anyway.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:27 AM, banduga ismail <bani...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Dear members, > > I personally asked one of the officers manning this roadblock whether they > have not yet found what they are looking for at this roadblock by asking > everyone who is passing this road block in a bus for identification. He had > no words, and only laughed. On another day, I picked a quarrel with some of > them over some students who were reporting back to school. I asked them at > what age they acquired their first IDs. > > Do you actually know that the checking of IDs at this road block is only > when you are traveling towards Karuma? If you are from Karuma traveling to > West Nile, no one bothers. What does this mean? To me, this is what it > means: if an al-shabab agent enters Uganda via Busia (which has happened in > the past) with a plan to execute in Nebbi, Arua or Koboko, he will do so > successfully. So we are not a security concern when we are coming to West > Nile but are dangerous and a national security threat when we are going > beyound Pakwach, a strange phenomenon. Is this westnilephobia? As said by a > member, someone seems to be thinking that someone did not die and is > planning to strike kampala one of these days. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> > *To:* "ombaci...@googlegroups.com" <ombaci...@googlegroups.com> > *Cc:* A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net>; " > ombaci...@googlegroups.com" <ombaci...@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 22:40 > *Subject:* Re: [WestNileNet] Monitor article : Why should W/Nile people > require IDs to cross Pakwach? > > We are taking this up. Ejiku Robert and other members of the Executive > will initiate a memo to the Chairman West Nile Parliamentary Group since > this issue affects the entire electorate and citizenry of West Nile. The > chairperson of the WN Parliamentary Group who I think is Hon. Fred Jachan > Omach who incidentally is M.P Jonam County which covers Pakwach Bridge can > take up the same matter with the P. M. I remember Government abolished all > internal roadblocks in Line with the principle of free movement of goods > and services. Hon. Erica Kategaya made the pronouncement as the Line > Minister. That is why the notorious Kafu and Karuma roadblocks were > removed. The issue is whether Uganda's boarder in North West is at Pakwach. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 28, 2012, at 17:36, Ocaatre Ronald Miria <romiri...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > Hi Tabu! > You are really spot on. I have personnally shared my displeasure and > annoyance about the only road block i guess in Uganda impossed on the > people of West Nile with a political leader who promised to table it in > MAYANK. > I think enough is enough, these people are just joking around with us. Can > we as a forum bring this to the attention of our cabinet members like Hon > Omach, Hon Aridru, Hon Baba who seems to be key to this, Hon Moses Ali et > al. > They may possibly not know the kind of anguish we go through. Can you > imagine when you are just getting into that good stage of sleep called REM, > somebody tellsyou to get out for a checking which is very useless i am > sorry to say coz, if the essence is to get 'Bad guys' who tells you that > they will travel without identification never mind it may be forged. > I will be in Kampala on Friday, if need be let the Chairman West Nile > Forum with the Top executive seek some appointment with the powers that be > from WNile and we chart a way forward. I am sure His exellency the > president does not know what His people of WN are going through. We too own > this country and must be treated with the dignity we deserve. > Caleb kindly take this up as our boss and we shall be there behind you. > > Good evening > > Ronald Miria Ocaatre > > --- On *Mon, 27/8/12, tabua butagira <tbutag...@yahoo.com>* wrote: > > > From: tabua butagira <tbutag...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Monitor article : Why should W/Nile people require IDs to cross > Pakwach? > To: "Ombaci OBs" <ombachi...@googlegroups.com> > Cc: "Sjocoba Alumni" <ombaci...@googlegroups.com> > Date: Monday, 27 August, 2012, 12:10 > > > Dear good people, > > I thought this is one bothersome issue, especially having witnessed some > commuters bounced (turned back home) at Pakwach checkpoint for lacking IDs, > passport or Voter's card yet no such inspection in other parts of the world. > > Vide *Daily Monitor* opinion article > http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Why+is+govt+treating+West+Nile+people+as++second+class+/-/689364/1487554/-/e816xwz/-/index.html > > What do you think? > > My view is that our leaders, particularly the elected ones, must have this > matter resolved so our relatives in the villages do not have to suffer, and > be humiliated, for lacking identification in a country without national IDs. > Tabu Butagira > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "St. Joseph's College Ombaci Old Boys" group. > To post to this group, send email to ombaci...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ombaci-ob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Ombaci-OB?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "St. Joseph's College Ombaci Old Boys" group. > To post to this group, send email to ombaci...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ombaci-ob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Ombaci-OB?hl=en. > > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > WestNileNet@kym.net > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). 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