{UAH} Bring Physical Planning to your Town/ Rural Area
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There is an ingredient I need to throw into this discussion, as we continue to follow the lives of these people at home that continue to neglect their country and lives, there must be a mathematical formula we must never ignore. Living in diaspora always ends up in retirement. That retirement automatically requires saving for it. There are three classes of Ugandans we have started to come across:-
The Ugandans that came in diaspora and believed into their country, dumped every coin they earned into Uganda with a hope of a country to get better. This class used the money they earn and the time they had on their hands, to try their level best to help the country. They read every piece of advice on what Uganda needs , for the people at home have been very efficient to push for what is required for the diasporas to do, than what the Ugandans at home are supposed to do. So I ended up with a Ugandan that has dumped all his account into the country to help it.
I have a second class of Ugandans that were smart and planned for retirement, they remained here and worked hard, but sent all their money into Uganda, they made substantive investment into the country, in plan with their retirement aspirations. As age keeps on flying they have started to reach a point of retiring, and they have found out that there is actually not enough for them to retire on. Families ate the investment, they misused it and kept on handing them crafty expectations, and the Uganda they expected to get better never actually showed up.
A third Ugandan class is the one that did it the old way, walk into this country/countries, registered themselves into a retirement vehicle and remained into that vehicle to today. They have been called all names and they are known for being mean and Uganda haters.
Retirement in these countries is built with time, and a very long time, the more time you invest into the vehicles and the more amount you invest into them, the larger the amounts you will get out of the vehicle till death. Yoweri Museveni has been in power so long that if you started to work when he was sworn to power, you should be looking at retiring today. Thus his leadership is directly impacting all the above classes. Having children in this country does not help one in retirement, for the children start to save for their retirement from the very first day on the job.
When I read the writings of Mr. Bwanika, they are the very same writings some of us read in Ugandanet, Ugandans are gifted in presenting the Uganda case, remember Mwami Kironde, remember A B K Kasozi all these wrote pieces about Uganda and how we are responsible to changing it. 30 years down the road Uganda has actually become worse, that even if you managed to save money into Uganda and it is in Uganda bank accounts, you have good real estate in Uganda to retire in, the situation has become so monkeyed up that your living in these countries this long, has handed you a comfort you will never see in Uganda. So even with the money that is safe on the day today, Monkeyed up life in Uganda where everyone is a mobile bomb to get you and your savings, will make your retirement in Uganda very complicated.
I know a class that decided to fly home and start a retirement that have come back.
As these friends write piece after piece, they have forgotten to put in a different sector in their argument for the country, how can the Ugandans in diaspora retire at home. For some very unknown reason, the Ugandans at home consider us to be working machines, that never stop, we send everything we have into Uganda, we will never retire. Or that part of our lives is never in their plan. Which leaves us dangling between diaspora and Uganda. But remember that at a certain age, your company manager is going to call you in, and tell you that today is your last day due to your age. What will you do? Go home and retire on the money that you squandered in the hopes of Uganda getting better, or retire on your empty retirement plan in diaspora for you spent your life savings being good to Ugandans?
As you are thinking about this minor detail about life, of retirement in diaspora that many Ugandans ignore, fly into Boston and visit the old Ugandans that live there. Get an experience to understand how retiring in diaspora is very real. Boston got most of the first Ugandans to move to diaspora way back, it is a very good case study on retiring as a Ugandan, for most of them invested into Uganda, with an understanding that Iddi Amin was the problem of Uganda, and his exit from power will make the pearl raise and shine again.
Amour et bisous à tous, car je vous aime vraiment dans votre aveuglement continu
EM -> { Trump for 2020 }
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
-----Original Message-----
From: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com [mailto:ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Bwanika
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2019 12:17 AM
To: ugandans-at-heart <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
Subject: {UAH} Bring Physical Planning to your Town/ Rural Area
In as much as I have been working with Urban Planning issues in Uganda, I have found out that many of our people do not understand a thing about what it means with planning a; Town, Municipal or City space.
How many towns in Uganda for example have flowers and grass in Uganda?
How then can Ugandans solve this deep seated "perception" problem
(cultural) - even with people working in government agencies and policy/decision makers who had never seen, experienced, been schooled or practiced town/ physical planning?
I encourage Diasporas Ugandans to primarily contact their Town Council Mayors, District Leaders and MPs and link them specifically to Urban Research Institutions and urban infrastructure develop entities both private and public.
For so many years I was in contact with former Mukono, Jinja, Mbarara Mayor, and once interacted with former Mayor of Kabale and elsewhere but the basic problem was to make their councils understand the basic tenets of the town and physical planning law in practice.
Bwanika
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There is an ingredient I need to throw into this discussion, as we continue to follow the lives of these people at home that continue to neglect their country and lives, there must be a mathematical formula we must never ignore. Living in diaspora always ends up in retirement. That retirement automatically requires saving for it. There are three classes of Ugandans we have started to come across:-
The Ugandans that came in diaspora and believed into their country, dumped every coin they earned into Uganda with a hope of a country to get better. This class used the money they earn and the time they had on their hands, to try their level best to help the country. They read every piece of advice on what Uganda needs , for the people at home have been very efficient to push for what is required for the diasporas to do, than what the Ugandans at home are supposed to do. So I ended up with a Ugandan that has dumped all his account into the country to help it.
I have a second class of Ugandans that were smart and planned for retirement, they remained here and worked hard, but sent all their money into Uganda, they made substantive investment into the country, in plan with their retirement aspirations. As age keeps on flying they have started to reach a point of retiring, and they have found out that there is actually not enough for them to retire on. Families ate the investment, they misused it and kept on handing them crafty expectations, and the Uganda they expected to get better never actually showed up.
A third Ugandan class is the one that did it the old way, walk into this country/countries, registered themselves into a retirement vehicle and remained into that vehicle to today. They have been called all names and they are known for being mean and Uganda haters.
Retirement in these countries is built with time, and a very long time, the more time you invest into the vehicles and the more amount you invest into them, the larger the amounts you will get out of the vehicle till death. Yoweri Museveni has been in power so long that if you started to work when he was sworn to power, you should be looking at retiring today. Thus his leadership is directly impacting all the above classes. Having children in this country does not help one in retirement, for the children start to save for their retirement from the very first day on the job.
When I read the writings of Mr. Bwanika, they are the very same writings some of us read in Ugandanet, Ugandans are gifted in presenting the Uganda case, remember Mwami Kironde, remember A B K Kasozi all these wrote pieces about Uganda and how we are responsible to changing it. 30 years down the road Uganda has actually become worse, that even if you managed to save money into Uganda and it is in Uganda bank accounts, you have good real estate in Uganda to retire in, the situation has become so monkeyed up that your living in these countries this long, has handed you a comfort you will never see in Uganda. So even with the money that is safe on the day today, Monkeyed up life in Uganda where everyone is a mobile bomb to get you and your savings, will make your retirement in Uganda very complicated.
I know a class that decided to fly home and start a retirement that have come back.
As these friends write piece after piece, they have forgotten to put in a different sector in their argument for the country, how can the Ugandans in diaspora retire at home. For some very unknown reason, the Ugandans at home consider us to be working machines, that never stop, we send everything we have into Uganda, we will never retire. Or that part of our lives is never in their plan. Which leaves us dangling between diaspora and Uganda. But remember that at a certain age, your company manager is going to call you in, and tell you that today is your last day due to your age. What will you do? Go home and retire on the money that you squandered in the hopes of Uganda getting better, or retire on your empty retirement plan in diaspora for you spent your life savings being good to Ugandans?
As you are thinking about this minor detail about life, of retirement in diaspora that many Ugandans ignore, fly into Boston and visit the old Ugandans that live there. Get an experience to understand how retiring in diaspora is very real. Boston got most of the first Ugandans to move to diaspora way back, it is a very good case study on retiring as a Ugandan, for most of them invested into Uganda, with an understanding that Iddi Amin was the problem of Uganda, and his exit from power will make the pearl raise and shine again.
Amour et bisous à tous, car je vous aime vraiment dans votre aveuglement continu
EM -> { Trump for 2020 }
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
-----Original Message-----
From: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com [mailto:ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Bwanika
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2019 12:17 AM
To: ugandans-at-heart <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
Subject: {UAH} Bring Physical Planning to your Town/ Rural Area
In as much as I have been working with Urban Planning issues in Uganda, I have found out that many of our people do not understand a thing about what it means with planning a; Town, Municipal or City space.
How many towns in Uganda for example have flowers and grass in Uganda?
How then can Ugandans solve this deep seated "perception" problem
(cultural) - even with people working in government agencies and policy/decision makers who had never seen, experienced, been schooled or practiced town/ physical planning?
I encourage Diasporas Ugandans to primarily contact their Town Council Mayors, District Leaders and MPs and link them specifically to Urban Research Institutions and urban infrastructure develop entities both private and public.
For so many years I was in contact with former Mukono, Jinja, Mbarara Mayor, and once interacted with former Mayor of Kabale and elsewhere but the basic problem was to make their councils understand the basic tenets of the town and physical planning law in practice.
Bwanika
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