{UAH} MULINDWA 'DOMAIN' RESPONSES ON FACEBOOK

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I kindly request any one with the ability to post this response to UAH Facebook site to do so, for some reason I am being eaten alive so I need to self-defend and today.

 

Because many of you have responded in very many ways, I am going to try and lump up my response to put a general idea of how un fair my writing is being taken on by scavengers. But I will start by listing Mwami Michael Mugambe, I did not state that there is no internet connection in Uganda, my God every country has an ability to connect on the net somehow. My argument is about building a national policy of Ugandans being able to connect on the net. I remember also having stated very well that the net is only limited to business people, Diplomats, NGOs and business. That internet service was never built on a national policy. A National policy makes sure that a service is accessible and at reasonable prices, and that is the line we have failed to cross. And here is an example of my lining of reasoning, How many offices are in Lotome? How many homes are in Lotome? How many schools are in Lotome? How many churches are in Lotome? Now I need two numbers from you sir, I need the total number of those institutions and I need the total number of the same that have an access to the internet. How many Uganda homes in Lotome have internet access? That is the argument I have sir for my argument is about a national policy, not about people with money and people that can invest as much as they can. Second question to you, when you log on the net do you use Uganda facilities or you are unknowingly tapping into the Kenya system, being in Moroto? That would be even a more interesting argument. So get off your high horse sir of yes I have a net connection in Lotome, so all Ugandans have access to the net for they simply don’t. And the places where it is you will get it when it is price prohibitive.

 

Isabel Darling, there is no simple way of developing communication in any country without wiring that country. Radio systems are good, satellite systems are good but bottom line after the frequency arrives at the final destination of the system it has to be taken to the house to the home to the office by a wire. Cities like Toronto have full cities of wires underground and you can eve drive a truck from some of these systems,  why? Because to reach the end user,  technology is still using wires. When we fail to wire up Uganda cities we fail to send that frequency to the house to the office where it is needed. Did you know that actually all these Western Television stations were being watched at Mpoma Satellite from way back at Amin’s time? Now why wouldn’t any one watch them when sitting in house in Mukono town? Because Mukono was not wired up. We need to wire that country up. And we need to wire it up on both ends, voice/Data transmission and power transmission. I cringe when I see millions of dollars dumped into building switching systems, and power generating systems when the systems we have in Uganda are sitting idle for their services are not able to reach the consumer for the cities the villages the country is not wired up. Why do you even bother to build the switches let alone the generating systems?

 

Lastly let me take on the cell phone bomb that Uganda is sitting on.

 

When you are building a national policy , there are sectors in a country that you never allow to be privatized, and let alone being privatized by foreign companies, a good example is power supply, water purification, sewage treatment, in Africa Air transportation and so on. And you refuse to privatize these sectors to foreign companies for you don’t control them, they show up in your country to suck money out and take it to their country. Thus they do not reinvest into your country, hasn’t it bother you that in Uganda, foreign companies invested mainly in cell service than land line service? Because cell service is a brief case business,  it involves very minimal requirement of equipment installation in the country. Private investors worry about bottom line they don’t worry about national development, so you will see them putting an effort to Kampala phones than Dokolo phones. But national communication system is built on short mid and long term system, how and why should a foreign company let alone private sector worry about the future when he/she is in Uganda to collect money and today. Sectors like communication follow other government strategy, suppose the strategy we have today is to develop farmers to have the net to sell their products in foreign markets, can the cell company run the phones to the farmers? No they want business in Kampala. So when you privatize communication you isolate the government services which is pathetically silly.

 

But most importantly, I find Ugandans very strange to praise the cell phone system they have in the country. Yes I can call my mother in Lake Katwe and talk to her. Yea that is fine, but critical thinkers like myself look at that cell in Lake Katwe and wonder  if your mother will have access to it next year.  Again I repeat myself that cell phones are a brief case business. Suppose we wake up tomorrow morning, and the companies running them have gone under belly, then what? They are foreign you do not know if they are financially viable, had they been Uganda companies and probably trading in public trade we would know their financial stand, but how do you know if this company has a healthy financial stand today and tomorrow? And have you ever gone to bed and in middle of your sleep you got a vision of The Movement going out of power,  and the next government we get is not in good relationship with South Africa? Those companies are going to tie up their brief cases and fly back to South Africa in 12 hour’s-notice, and all cell phones in Uganda will go docile. Then what? During Obote one government, we had a very good relationship with Tanzania, 1971 came in and Tanzania became the worst enemy of Uganda that we barbed wired the border between the two states. Can you simply imagine if AMO had stupidly built the communication system of Uganda by Tanzanian companies? We would have been very screwed. South Africa is looting a whole whack of cash out of Uganda and the next government must make sure that this ends, suppose the South African companies decide to leave the country, how will you make that phone call when the companies have switched off their equipment? That is why you need a land line service,  that is why you need to wire up Uganda,  for communication is an oxygen to the national growth. And I opine that he decision to allow South African companies to sell cell services in Uganda, was un-nationalistic, childish, silly, uncalled for and out right plain firkin stupid.

 

Yea and please excuse my French !!!!!!

 

EM
On the 49^th

 

 

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