{UAH} WE FAIL AS AFRICANS OR UGANDANS FOR WE ONLY COPPY

Friends

 

One of the hold ups Ugandans have is to half copy what is being done out of Uganda and set it up at home, and I will always use two examples that have marveled me always, a Ugandan that imported rolled up Pasipalamu from UK for the city of London uses it, and a Ugandan that built a revolving restaurant for Toronto has it. When you look at those two concepts they are actually very good but the city of London rolls that Pasipalamu in summer and it gets very nice in a single day for they have researched it and they have a good knowledge about it but they have a weather it can survive into. The Pasipalamu we use in Uganda is very different actually. Toronto has a rotating restaurant but we invested so much in power supply that it is so hard to get a power loss, and I will come back at that point as the piece goes on.

 

Canada is a country running on Federalism,  but is that why we are a democratic state? The answer is no because Federalism actually does not build Federalism it is a sign of maturity in democratic principles. Ocen Nekyon has raised some important questions to Akim Odong with very good examples that some of us  have already raised to Federalist night criers, but as always Akim Odong has not responded to them. But the federalism we have in this country has been built for so many years and we are not even there yet, provinces like Quebec have refused to sign on that Federalism page up to today. They still need their independence from Canada, what does that tell you? But The Akim Odong’s of today do not want to build that ground work that Canada has built,  they  just want to copy the cream Canada has and move forward. When you look at what he posts Akim Odong is not worried at the violence in his very region, his worry is only about Kampala and getting Uganda into federalism so that he goes up North and terrorize those he dislikes.

 

I have spent literary months ignoring many issues on Uganda for I need a quiet time to clarify Acholi violence that has been ignored all along, but I had to show up on the national ID issue for it is a very catastrophic decision that we must never make in our country. But again when you look at it, Dr Kayondo is preaching it not for Uganda needs it but because United States has it and it works so well. Well what back ground did US do before it registered its people? Have we done that back ground yet? The answers no we are trying to jump all of them and start by registering the population. 20 years I have fought in these forums on Uganda must plan but prepare its self to transmit data, only Mwami Jim Muwanga supported that call, the rest of Ugandans simply laughed at it. So here is the question to you all, if you have failed to build a data transmission system in Uganda how the hell are you going to store that registry? How will you use, protect but access and retrieve it? Hey all that back  ground is not useful what we need is to register every born baby. To today Ontario  does not have our health records systems on line for we simply have failed to build the system to store it, how the hell will Uganda register its people when it has no single land line working?

 

Last Friday or Saturday we got a black out in this city and some pockets in the province,  about 2,000 people lost power for a couple of hours, then on about Sunday we got a time when lights were flickering. Those two things required an investigation and the results I read last night were very educative. One of the lines feeding Toronto got a broken wire and that wire created a damage as it was going down. But since the major black out that affected us in 2003, major investments and changes were made in our power supply system. Our circuits are running at a rotating system, so that when a computer finds a problem at a Mukono power pole as an example, it cuts off power supply from Jinja to Mukono through to Bweyogerere, then it so turns around and pulls power out of Kampala to supply the line to Mukono via Bweyogere. So the system is built to supply from both sides so that we have power to the most people as technicians are looking for the damaged pole and bad line to fix it,  then reinstruct the computer to supply power in the instructed way. We are at a point where you can change a transformer off a pole and the house owner does not see a bulb flick because the computer can manipulate power from another transformer as you are still fixing this transformed to feed the bulb. The last sentence of the report said that if we did not build this system, the breaking of the wire that happened would have made 9 million customers black out for the two days it took to clear the problem. We cut that number to only 2,000. The job now is to find how the 2,000 can be protected in such event. That is how you build a system and a system that is dependable.

 

I made it an issue to test the power I was getting in my meter box in Uganda, and I measured it about 10 times off a meter box in a single day, the readings I kept on getting were so appalling and I gave up. I got from 75 volts, to 90 volts, to 180 volts, to 275 volts to you name it. And I was just putting a meter in my meter box to find out the voltage I was getting off the system. It varies to how much load is on the system to how many people are using the system. A Uganda meter box must read 220-240V,  a number I never got, it was either too high or too low. With that kind of fractuation, forget to build the communication system in Uganda for it is very reliant on stable power supply. I need to throw an Oscilloscope on the supply and look at that wave out of it and it has no noise, no interference, for five straight weeks, then I can put a system on it to work. I need a system that is not only fractuating in voltage supply but a system that passes through an oscilloscope and it sees no noise on it,  then I can throw a filter on it to be used. How the heck will you use a power that jumps from 75V to 275V at output? 3/4s of Uganda power lines are not earthed, the poles are rotten for the last time they were changed was under Iddi Amin’s government before you were born. Most of the bulbs you see in Kampala are actually feeding off private generators. What system can survive on such?

 

And in as much as all these are very simple but basic questions, Ugandans do not need to address let alone fix them, they want to sue EM for he has raised the Acholi violence. Forget those people that kill their own children they do it for we have a unitary system. If you had Acholi Federalism, Gulu will become the Uganda Toronto. Are you firkin kidding me !!!!! No we do not need to build a stable power supply in Uganda what we need to develop in Uganda is a national register. Well where will you put it? Where will you store it? How will you access it? No we have to create a national register for Americans created it. To build a stable power supply in Uganda you need at minimum 15 years with billions of dollars that can be achieved from friends by men like Iddi Amin. Friends let us kindly get organized so that we build from the ground up than up to down, but let us build structures for we need them but not because so and so has it and we must have it. Let us be creative in what we do as Africans but Ugandans. The power system we have in Toronto has been  very costly to install, cities like New Market, London and so on simply don’t have them for it is price prohibitive.

 

Why do we as Ugandans sell these ideas to ourselves?                   -> And I am just asking !!!!!!!!!!!!!.}

 

EM

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