{UAH} UPC EDUCATION CREATED A CULTURE OF SLOPPY MINDS IN UGANDA

Friends

 

Few days ago I stated that I went to Ottawa and had to drive back for Air Canada does not fly to Ottawa on weekends, apparently this is a large decision affecting many small cities in this country due to the pandemic. So I wake up last Saturday and had to do a job in Sudbury, they call it the greater Sudbury for some unknown reason. Packed everything I needed, then on logging to the AC system to book myself, I found that they do not fly to Sudbury over the weekend either, They send only one flight at 8,30am and it does not come back. These cities in normal days have frequent flights you  book a flight as you are leaving the house, that is what we have done all our lives. Well I had to drive to Sudbury a whopping about 350 KMs north. This was not my first time to go up there I knew the city and I always complained why they call it a city, Sudbury should have been called a town, but on pulling in after the long nice drive, man has Sudbury changed. It is huge and large but expanding. Our company has a warehouse that I have dealt with for a very many times, but I had never visited it for we do every thing on line. It is as huge as the one we have in Toronto, for they use it to supply every part we need Northern of the province, what an experience it was.

 

And here is my question today, when  you drive through Kuumi what has changed for you in that town? What new building, what new infrastructure have you actually witnessed in Kuumi? And I am using that town just for the piece I am writing, but look on all those towns from let us say end of Jinja to the Kenyan boarder. What has changed for you that you see? It is the very old crap that was built mainly by Indians that they left, I drove through Iganga and the very long Indian strip houses they built only that this time around you had women carrying bibbo with Gonja, dust was all over the place, and Boda-boda juu yake. What has changed in Iganga lately that you have seen that has impressed you about Iganga? The hospital is an infection center. The faces for some very unknown reason start to become familiar, you know that old lady you saw 5 years ago seems to be stuck on the road where you left her, and the old cloth she had still wearing the very same. And it might not be the same woman but as generations walk in and walk out their lives never change, their cloth is rag tags and the enkyakya you left on last trip in Uganda still on their feet. What town have you driven through, in Eastern and Northern Uganda that has changed?

 

I have attacked John Kwitonda on many times for putting these blames on Museveni, if you are in Toronto, the city of Milton has exploded mainly in last 10 years to what you never saw. Milton was a forest all around, and that forest is gone to an explosion of investment, and real estate. We used to drive kids to Keswick for we had a Uganda family living there, nice and quite with Rabbits running all over the place, these days, Keswick is a huge city with banking and trade, industry, wall mart has gone in, Home depos are there, if you live in Keswick you do not need to drive to New Market for anything. And now 404 has walked in too. These expansions are never done by the provincial government or  by Justine Trudeau they are done by we Canadians, we invest in the future of our country, we invest for our children. Have you seen Pickering, Oshawa and Whitby lately?  Large man !!!!!

 

Ugandans in those towns are not poor they are actually very rich people that are so sloppy about investing in their regions. Do you know what has changed in Kuumi? A whole lot of 4X4s, they wheedle in and out and you wonder exactly how they are financed. The people owning them have cash that they refuse to put into investment equity. You and I have seen money in Uganda in Guniya, we have watched photographs of piles of money on tables, that is the money I am targeting right now, why not invest it in your own small towns and grow them? When Amin was in power, all small talks was about get a house and build it, and we have their structures to today, when you drive past Lukomera going Luwero there is house by Naluvule, that house was of I think Ssebbi, he built it and we pulled a phone line all way from Luwero to Naluvule, way out of Kampala, there is another house you see past Iganga that was of a minister, I forget the name, those structures are out there and some are still used to today by the families of those fellows. John Dole’s house is still in Uganda, I sleep in it when ever I go to Uganda.  Who do you know from East or Northern Uganda that built a home? Tito Okello or Peter Ottai?

 

It is such a terrible culture that has lived in these regions for years, every one that pops up encroaches himself in Kampala, when they go to Uganda they live in Kampala hotels and call in the in laws, the ones that decide to buy houses buy in Kampala too. When Paul Loketch decided to buy a house, no he never remembered Pader the first word that came to him was Kiira. And I can list so many of those examples. Yes he loved Pader but that was a place to go in a 4X4 and he needed nothing to improve that, for his home is in Kiira. What has changed in Kuumi to you today? Gulu is one aspiring town, and I encourage all of you to drive through Gulu, it is developing at a good rate. Do you see Salim Saleh going to Gulu and stay there? It is that developing. I am submitting to you that Acholi and Langi are not building Gulu it is actually Baganda that invest into the South Sudan that are buying those plots and building houses.  Getting a brick and throw it into the ground is not an Acholi or Langi life style.

 

Let us round it all back to the education system that Obote one government built in our country, fact -All schools we have battled through with Peter Simon Okurut have collapsed or about to collapse. There is not a single one of them that has an independent bank account, they hand no bursaries out, in fact if we were fair to Ugandan kids some schools like Mwiiri need to be destroyed, and no kid should be lied to that is in school in Mwiiri today. Aleot is Rats breeding ground as we speak, Boro-Boro high should not be called a school today no it should get another name. Go to Uganda and visit these slams. They are a shame for our country to be called schools. Uganda schools were built by missionaries, what the Obote government did was to politicize them, they pumped in students of UPC members, in Western Uganda they opened up the entire structure to Rwandans, and it is that opening up that brought Rwandans like Muntonyera to Uganda and becoming UPC honchos. The education system was to back UPC at all costs, it was never about building a country. Schools are an investment and for that investment to work it must reach a point of financial independence. Mwiiri college should have a real estate investment in Iganga today.  It is that educational structure that produced the sloppy minds we have in our country, it is that education that has stalled any investment into real estate, in factories, but have a population that moves with guniya’s of money.

 

And do you know what saved Buganda from that nonsense? It is culture, we some how educated our elves that our future is built by how safe we make our future generations, I built my first house before I got my first job and that is not firkin funny. I had a grand Ma that was on my ass to build a home for that is what makes me a man. My first born was born in that home.

 

My question to you this morning, how do we change these sloppy minds  !!!!!!!!                             -> And they are very many trust me for a sloppy mind begets a sloppy kid.

EM         -> {   Gap   at   46  } – {Allan Barigye is a Rwandan predator}

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