{UAH} Change is good: Government to prioritize on railway - water transport

Tony,

I know there are many young people in this forum who might know only oral history of our country. Some of them like Robert were just babies in the1980s and never had the comfort of coming near  cars/trains  in their villages; seeing one would send them to hiding under beds/banana shambas/bushes; the older ones like Annet and Peter would throw stones at passing vehicles as if protesting  intrusion in their otherwise quiet villages. I can appreciate their concerns especially when cows and goats scatter away from the group upon hearing the sound of cars/trains and the occasional knocking dead of cows/goats crossing roads; one time I saved a driver and his passengers from irate cattle-keepers  whose cow had been knocked dead by a speeding car around Lyantonde; he was lucky I was following their car.

Change often comes with new promises and sometimes concrete plans follow. For instance, President Tibahurwa who came to power just less than a month ago has quickly noted that the railway and water transport are much cheaper than road transport and has  prioritized its revival. He regrets that railway transport last reached northern Uganda in 1986 and blames it on past bad governments. Welcome President Tibahurwa, our man!

Inquisitive Robert might ask, which governments have been in power since 1986 which halted the railway service to the north? Now the new regime under the leadership of Yoweri Tibahurwa Kaguta Museveni has come to revive services that were destroyed by past bad regimes!

I am sure that all, like me  whose lives partly depended on that railway service from Tororo- Atiak/Gulu are full of  smiles for the promise to revive it and wish that young Tibahurwa had come to power even 10 years ago. Imagine, just less than one month in power and he has come with a list of priorities.

Please when you get time, help clear the confusion among our young people regarding the following: value of change, prioritization, bad and good leaders, past and present regimes and when does a regime be considered a past or current regime, is it with change of change of names of  leaders or change of  leaders. 

Peter Simon

https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1530272/museveni-gov-prioritize-railway-water-transport