{UAH} Mr. President aren't we in a crisis?

 

It appears to me that there is a deep crisis in government. Some government departments don't have paper, just paper to write on for example.  Others are just wishing that a favorite/popular  Minister could be into that ministry for the ministry to get the necessary working conditions improve.

 

In my own view as a sociologist – I think and feel we have too big a government and it has become cancerously unmanageable. It is dangerous, for idle minds will always find activities to keep busy. And this is not only on ministerial level but almost everywhere in local governments.

Over administration of everything has become Uganda's trade mark.

 

Isn't time to really evaluate what given government agencies are really doing or not doing?  

 

Just visit Luweero Town council which is a stone throw away from the district council. It is a total mess, people claiming to be attending to official government duties when in actual sense there is virtually no business.

 

I have seen in the media the Malaysian Minister of transformation all over the place teaching Uganda ministers how to make follow ups in their respective ministries.  

 

I have read these articles with fascination but also bizarre surprise.  What has to work first? The administration or the organisation itself?

 

Town, Municipal and City councils for example should be able to design roads, School and hopistals, human settlements, architectural design, drainage systems, structural engineering works beside mechanical and electro engineering works (auto-mecho engineering works) –this is the non-existing organisation which the Malaysian minister is teaching administration!

And where we have a semblance of an organisation - there are no codes or guidelines. Does Uganda have a standard road and building design code - it is everything goes. Anyone can place a school, hospital, a factory or a bar anywhere .

Universities in Uganda are in homes!

Can you imagine a mechised UPDF brigade without engineers!

All this time we did not understand how to run government business- It is very strange indeed.

Let me write this for your own information. If a person is just thrown into a ministry without either academic or practical experience of what the ministry is doing the result will be zero!

 

I fully understand the logic of your big cabinet, unfortunately as all organizations the bigger the organisation becomes the complex management becomes.

This is not to mention the cost, besides human ability of learning or adaptation to a lax condition where they benefit without offering any services

 

It is high time you make a sharp u-turn in regard to public management and administration- this government will deliver a trade deficit you had never seen before but not development you are seeking for, I fear.

Bwanika

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Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero

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