{UAH} Interesting reading

Friends

 

The problem in Uganda is not only corruption, it is lazy brains as well. Hear me out here. Few days ago I posted in this forum that Uganda fish has been licensed to come to this city. You can get a Nile perch at almost weekly basis. Dry ones and Omuwotokwa are available, small Mputa, Engege and Ssemutundu. And that to me was a good idea for I now have the ability to cut down on the meat products. I love Goat meat but I have to drive out of town and get a whole Goat slaughtered and freeze it. If I get the chance for a Uganda dry fish it gives me a secondary option. Thus one of those days as I was chatting with a Ghanaian friend on food, she praised Uganda for it produces good fish. Hey what did you actually say again? Well she has been eating Uganda fresh fish for a long time. So I wanted to know how she gets it. I pulled a chair to follow the conversation for now I am at loss of what is coming out of Uganda.

 

Apparently Uganda fish that gets abandoned by the Mwiiri graduates to flow freely, goes all way up into the River Nile and arrives into Egypt zone, Egyptians pick it up process it, freeze it and ship it out to this city. In processing they grade it to one size and price it according to size, they take off the scales, and cut out the intestines. But they sell it stupidly cheap at a cost of $3 dollars Canadian. So they pack 4 into a bag and each bag is at 12 dollars Canadian. It reminded me when I flew through Libya during Iddi Amin time and a Uganda Pineapple was being sold cheaper at Tripoli international than buying it off a farm in firkin Namasujju. Every product at airport is very expensive, but a Uganda Pineapple was being sold in Tripoli airport, at a cheaper price than off a farm in Namasujju. We are about to buy a Uganda Tilapia in Toronto at a cheaper price than off the Lake Victoria shores.

 

And what really pissed me off was that after they process it and pack it they label it as a Nile Tilapia. We were pardoned that they did not call it a Uganda Tilapia.

 

Friends I know I never went to school, and I know I was never smart as Rwandans and some Ugandans with cheap parents have defined me in this very forum. But honestly if we paid your firkin school fees to run our country, what is so firkin complex in getting a Nile Perch off Lake Victoria, process it, freeze it and send it to Canada? In all years that the UPC party was in power in our country it never occurred to you that we can actually ship these products out? For even Amin send Pineapples to Libya illiterate and buffoon as Gook calls him. And you decided to squat in Nakawa in a government slum, on Malwa joint to wait for the cheap harvest, for Baganda are stupid to be used as slaves to grow Coffee and Cotton for you, to be shipped out of Uganda, yes that is exactly what it was. We grow coffee, we dry it, we bring it to your Muyindi store and both you and the Muyindi live happily after. For a Muyindi was getting a free life style thanks to my father’s sweat, and you got free education for your parents were firkin lazy to pay it as ours did, thanks to the same. In the min time as you were crossing that bridge on the falls coming to the looting center, those bubbles you used to see on Lake Victoria, were not empty bubbles that was a Nile perch singing to you sir. Hey look I am here and if you only pick me up and put me into a firkin bag I can generate money to your people living on the Gonja on the bus route in firkin Namukora.

 

Year after year after year those bubbles remained into Lake Victoria and you kept on passing them and ignoring them for you are running into Kampala to find away on how you can manufacture a war to remove a president and live happily after. The Nile perch got firkin pissed and decided to leave the bridge, started swimming North until when they arrived to Egypt where they are being processed today, and generating money to the Egyptians. So to sum it all up, Lake Victoria supports these small friends, they massively produce, swim North where there are people with brains, that never went to Mwiiri, get processed, frozen and flown to EM thanks to Egyptian Air. A God damn kid in firkin Namukora has no chance to get that fish for the mother is on a bus route running a Kibbo kya Gonja economy that can never pay for a Nile Perch. Fish is good for a brain, can you simply imagine that future Uganda adult from Namukora that failed to eat fish running a Uganda government office? Oh by the way the market is large, for it targets all Africans from East to West, they fly of the scale like you will never believe it. And the supply is in the comfort zone for I asked the guy selling them if I can get the big ones, and he said yup, as long as you promise to buy them we will bring them. So in my area they are just trying the market if we know they have the big ones and we will buy them a Kibaati is going to be available in a firkin month.

 

I have raised how Mwiiri graduates have looted our country by studying for free and they stand in diaspora farting at our country they purposely failed, I have raised how Rwandans like Allan Barigye have become really firkin ticks on our country, ticks that not only abuse, not only loot but most of the babies born in Uganda today are fathered by the same fools, this morning I am raising the Egyptians that do not worry about lake Victoria ownership, they just sit in their homes and wait on the idiocy of the Mwiiri graduates that allow the Nile perch to swim all way from lake Victoria, pass the entire great lakes complex, go through the entire firkin Acholi land, into Egypt, in the evening Egyptians pick up a basket and just go to collect, for the Perch actually has nowhere to go further than that.

 

There is a name my grandfather used to call such silly Ugandans, but due to Abbey Semuwemba strict rules into the forum I will not use the word.

EM         -> {   Gap   at   46  }

On the 49^th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
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                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"

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Subject: {UAH} Interesting reading .

 

Interesting reading .

As copied from WhatsApp

 

Mr Yoweri Museveni and his publicists are telling Ugandans how they have constructed the Entebbe Expressway, Karuma and Isimba dams and now the Source of The Nile bridge.

 

What they do not say is that all these projects are funded by loans, which will have to be paid back by Ugandans, not Mr Museveni and his NRM party. If Ugandans used a “value for money audit” to evaluate the cost of these projects, they would pick sticks and flog the politicians.

 

Comparative economics requires that we compare our projects with similar projects in other countries. Karuma and Isimba dams are estimated to produce 780MW at a cost of $2.8 million per megawatt, making a total of $2.2bn. 

 

Lesotho constructed a dam of 6,000MW at a cost of $800,000 per MW, totalling to $4.8bn. Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance dam, the largest dam in Africa, produces 6,450MW costing $991,633 per MW, totalling $6.4bn.

 

ASSUMPTIONS 

 

If Uganda used the ($800,000) unit cost of Lesotho to produce the 780MW, we would only pay $624m and save $1.57 billion (this is assumed to be eaten). We would even double our production to 1,560MW and still have a balance. 

 

If we used the higher unit cost of Ethiopia ($991,633), the 780MW would cost Ugandans only $773.4 million and save $1.4 billion (assumed eaten). If Uganda was to construct the Lesotho dam of 6,000MW using the Ugandan cost, it would cost the taxpayers about $17 billion instead of the $4.8bn the Lesotho taxpayers parted with. 

 

If Uganda was to produce Ethiopia’s 6,450MW using the Ugandan cost, taxpayers would pay about $18.2 billion instead of the $6.4bn the Ethiopians paid. Let’s look at how much is paid in the roads. 

 

Entebbe Expressway is 53km with four lanes. About $9 million was spent per kilometre, which brought the total cost to $476 million. Kenya’s Thika Highway is 50km long, eight lanes costing about $7.2m per kilometre, with a total cost $360 million. 

 

If we used the assumed balance, we got from using the Lesotho cost of constructing a dam ($1,576bn), we would have another four-lane highway of 174.9 kilometres. That is the road distance from Entebbe to Bugiri.

 

If we used the balance from the Ethiopia cost, $1.426bn, we would have another four lane highway of 159km. That is the distance from Kampala to Kalisizo towards Mutukula. If we decided to use the Thika highway cost of eight lanes costing $7.2 million and factor in our Lesotho unit cost balance of $1.576bn, we would have a 220km eight-lane highway. 

 

If we used the Ethiopia balance of $1.426bn, we would have a 200km eight-lane highway. These distances would cover Kampala - Gulu highway. If Kenyans were given the money spent on the 53km four-lane Entebbe Expressway of $476m, they would have constructed a 66.1km, eight-lane highway! 

 

If they were to have a four-lane, they would have 120.2km instead of Uganda’s 53km! As Ugandans struggle with skyrocketing Yaka bills, Ethiopian domestic consumers will not pay for the power they use. The majority of Ugandans will not be able to drive on the “pay as you drive” Entebbe Expressway, while Kenyans will drive for free on the Thika highway in Kenya.

 

One wonders why the Shs 2.5bn Luweero-Rwenzori project is supervised at a cost of Shs 33bn. The other day, Mr Museveni opened the $125m four-lane Source of the Nile bridge ($100m loan from Japan). It is 525 metres long and 52.9m wide.

 

Shanghai’s Napu bridge costs $119m. It’s a six-lane highway, 8,346m long and 46m wide. Nigeria’s Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge in Lagos is a four-lane dual carriageway highway, 1,357 metres long, 8.0mx2 carriageway (width) bridge and 2.3mx 2 walkway, streetlights. It cost $79 million.

 

In all these countries, where the above bridges are constructed, there are reports of corruption. The difference here is how much is stolen vis-a-viz the quantity of work done.

 

Museveni’s told Ugandans that about 90 per cent and 67 per cent labour and supervisors respectively who worked on the project were Ugandan. Most raw materials were sourced locally. At least $25 million from Uganda’s government was to compensate those whose land the bridge was to occupy. Who owns land on River Nile?

 

He also talked about the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), but this too is another expensive white elephant. Railway engineers inform us that it would be much cheaper to upgrade the existing rail tracks from British standard to German standard, replace bends with longer curves (to allow for higher train speeds) and upgrade rolling stock (locomotives). This would achieve the SGR objectives of carrying heavier cargo in a shorter time over the same distance at a much reduced cost.

 

What is unfortunate is that most of these projects are financed by poorly negotiated loans. Generations will hustle to pay back these loans yet most of the money is eaten by the “fat cats.”

 

Oh Uganda, May God uphold thee.

 

 

EM         -> {   Gap   at   46  }

On the 49^th 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"