SV: {UAH} was at GO FORWARD manifesto launch

Still I am inclined to wonder what the composition of the next parliament shall be.

Who shall work with who / whom?

Noc'la gaumoy

 

"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den onsdag, 25 november 2015 20:01 skrev Michael Miti-Kavuma <mitikavuma@hotmail.com>:

Kibaki was part of KANU for a long time; an outfit I was told was a very corrupt and inefficient. When he jumped into the driver's seat, he turned around Kenya and Kenya will probably never look back.
 
That does not mean I am a fan of JPAM although I can hold my nose and vote for him.
 
Manifestos are just what they are - manifestos. : some of what is it makes sense and doable. As an example:one does not need divine powers to revive cooperatives.
 
Miti-Kavuma
 

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:43:38 +0000
From: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
Subject: {UAH} was at GO FORWARD manifesto launch

Sunday afternoon, i happened to be at the manifesto launch of candidate Amama Mbabazi. Venue: Serena Conference Centre in Kampala.

Truth is, some of us are too idealistic to find any inspiration in manifestos authored by mortals. These candidates cannot guarantee our, let alone, their own lives so selling us "sweet nothings" about roads they won't build and co-operatives they won't swindle doesn't really hammer me. We could all pass on today and they can do nothing about about it.

But they sound good in the sense of that being the only means they have to stand out from the crowdy soup. You know, any candidate is more advanced than non-candidates for the sheer bravery and sacrifice of choosing to offer themselves to taste the slippery turf that is African populations.

Regarding the content of the manifesto; i was mostly excited that candidate Mbabazi thought of Arts centres which he said they would build at every sub county. Now, this is a good move in the line of upgrading a much under-rated and under-developed industry of creative arts and entertainment. 

However, that pledge was still below par in comparison to my own initiative of a Presidential Music and Arts Awards, an annual initiative i have been putting in place since last year and will be annual. Among other offers, we are going to put an Entertainment District with an arena, four times larger than Namboole, and with other amenities not in Uganda today. President Museveni will be the first to award artistes since our first event is slated for late December.

Then Mbabazi promised internet wifi at sub country level. Here also, we are ahead of him as we have been toiling with some Americans to introduce free internet-beaming from space-countrywide. 

On corruption, he said whistleblowers will be entitled to 25% of any loot they expose. This is wonderful and more attractive than the standing 5% which we have been calling on members to go for rather than drown our senses in dins of endless "corruption, corruption,.." with no proof of their claims. Still, corruption can never be stamped out as it comes in many forms but our candidates are concentrating on monetary heists. Moral corruption which breeds ineffieciency, dishonesty, selfishness, envy etc i worse and with no price.

He talk of a very lean gov't of 20 ministers, etc. This will cause him to lose votes just like Besigye's threat to abolish RDCs, Presidential Advisor posts usually does him in. You can't threaten a section of workers loss of livelihood and think they will reward you for it.

He said he would ensure the Diaspora votes; which is another area we have toiled with for long. But in the Diaspora, there are 1000s who claim to have fled because of him.

He said nothing about curbing road carnage; another area that will shade the colour of my vote. I also didn't hear anything about an Airline or Water transport modernisation and being strict on party dsicipline by kicking hard such fellows as rebel MPs when they can't behave.

He also said nothing about improving the working environment for the media fraternity, another sign that that industry will be marginalised forever till it's abolished.

The venue was precisely occupied both in the main conference hall and the "pavilllion". I also noticed that most high-ranking officials who fear to associate with him in public send either relatives or friends to stand in for them. 

That's all i can report .

Robert Atuhairwe

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