{UAH} BUSINESS IN UGANDA NEEDS AN OVERHAUL::

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For many years I have sent out the real damage Uganda is going to face because it has just failed to transmit data. At the time I started that push, three quarters in this forum did not even understand the term Data transmission. Today it is a common knowledge for needing Data is just closing in on all Ugandans whether you have 50 million dollars in the house in Busembatia or 50 million bullets in Moroto. Data crosses the entire cross section. So I am not going to push Data transmission this morning, what I am going to expand on is the piece I wrote a couple of days ago regarding X-ray and MRI machines, how independent companies like General Electric own them and simply rent them out to hospitals at a per use basis. The company we are chewing on today is Toledo Scale Company.

 

As hospitals run there is no important equipment physicians need as weighing machines, and Toledo might have every machine from what the patient stands on when he walks to a clinic, to a plate a slice of liver is thrown on during autopsy. Toledo weighing machine will tell the weight of one heart wall, but determine how health is a bone. That is why Toledo Scales has for many years sold from the toughest scale where you drive your garbage trailer and they weigh how much garbage is on it, to a slice of a skin pulled off a dead man for replant.

 

There are many weighing machines out there, what makes Toledo of importance today is that it has started to cut down on selling their machines, and for several good reasons, some are very delicate that you do not want to move from store to store, some are very hard to calibrate, thus many physicians get that calibration wrong thus wrong numbers out, but some are so tinny that if it breaks it makes no time value to drive and fix it. He is what Toledo is actually changing to, own their weighing machines as GE, send them out to be used at a rental basis. You need to get a system in Uganda, where one of you builds a massive Wearhouse, become an agent of Toledo Scales then the physicians get them at need basis. 

 

No do not send your kids to Mwiiri College, send them to Nakawa or Kyambogo and the course they are looking for is Logistics. Every movement of these units to physicians and back has to be run by some one that studied logistics, and you do not need a degree but a certificate to be employed. When you take that course make sure you include a course about Dangerous goods movement, that is a very vital component. You will control what unit is where and handled how. Logistics will teach you who flies with whom. You know there is nothing that takes money like investing into Horses in this country. A few rich men wanted to fly their horses from Toronto to Florida for they wanted to join a competition, drove their horses to Pearson airport, and prepared them to fly. They boarded an Air Canada and up they took off. On arriving into Florida all hoses were dead. To cut it short, whoever loaded that air bus, got a box with dry Ice and locked it in the same space with the horses. Now slow here, when Dry ice reaches the cruising level, it chemically reacts that it sucks in oxygen as it sends our Carbon dioxide, that is why we use it when transporting human tissues, some medications and so on, for it makes sure that the oxygen is pumped continuously to the part we are sending out. Dry Ice sucked all oxygen from the horses and handed them Carbon dioxide in exchange, which they kept on breathing till they died in their sleep. That individual never studied how to transport Dangerous Goods for Dry ice is among them, and must clearly be marked as such before it boards.

 

Here is what is Uganda's problem, you will get an EM that will establish that warehouse, and Toledo Scales will bring their equipment to his ware house, what you simply do not have in Uganda is an Acholi that can drive that scale to Abim hospital for the physician to use it and bring it back to the warehouse. The Acholi is going to sell off that scale as soon she gets his hands on it. To him the patient in Abim hospital does no matter really, for to him he looks like the areal cables we used to install in Uganda,  they meant squat to a drunk Acholi. He will raise up cock his gun and shoot gafula in the air taking the cable out. That is he Acholi you have in Uganda, and he is not alone they are in tens of thousands. It is a culture that was brought up without good up bringing, many are ill informed, and do not care either way. Did you know that Acholi men never build homes? It is the wife's job to build a home for the family. That is why you see that Northern Uganda is still stuck with Busisira for women are not able to collect enough money for a bag of cement. They can only cut grass. The men that earn a living were never  brought up with a responsibility to build a home.  So the wife goes to the jungle, cuts the Ssubi, ferries it home on her head, she climbs up on top of the structure, and ties it to make the home of the family. After she makes that roof on the house she runs into the house to be whacked with the rest of the five women she shares that dick with. And all five will start to puke babies faster than rabbits, as soon as they are wacked. Apart from whacking them the man must always have a supply of lira lira and a stick, man Acholi women can take a beating, I respect them for that. He beats her to the pulp and then she cook dinner for it is her day to cook. What can go wrong in that family  !!!!!

 

And I opine that if you have such a lazy pile of population, your machine swill never move from point A to point B, and as Data transmission has caught up with Ugandans logistics is not that far off, just continue doing exactly what you did yesterday, and what you are doing exactly today and see how all my predictions just come true. My next peace is going to be how insurance companies have started to refuse insuring Ugandans in diaspora, that want to invest  in Uganda.

 

Come one come all.

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

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
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BUSINESS IN UGANDA NEEDS AN OVERHAUL::

 

I met a fairly rich friend of mine and asked him a question that had puzzled me for a long time. "Why don't most of you people invest in industries? Why are all of you doing real estate?"

 

His answer humbled me but also got me depressed.

 

"You see Ian, in Uganda it is always good to avoid businesses with many moving pieces. They will send you to your grave earlier than you expect. 

 

Most businesses in Uganda fail because employees run them down. 

 

Imagine I started a factory, do you know that most of the profits will go to my employees. Ugandans will steal something at every stage of the value chain. 

 

As you source materials, someone will cut a deal. They will inflate the prices. Then another employee will be waiting to steal some of these materials. Then you have equipment to deal with. You have the finance people. You can't trust them too. They can cook you up in numbers.

 

Now you will go to the Sales people. The logistics people will also be waiting to get something. Your truck driver will find a way to cheat up, either on fuel, or doing a trip to run their own errands. You will even have ghost employees. 

 

Unless you want me to get heart attacks for no reason, I rather stick to the things I know with few moving pieces.

 

At least once I construct my apartments, I only have to deal with tenants. And I know very well how much I should expect to collect from my apartments at the end of the month."

 

From then on, I realized this Ugandan system is a jungle. The Bodaboda man will claim not to have change so that you tell him; "okay keep it." 

 

Last time I was buying a phone in Lugogo, the lady intentionally kept the 10K off the change she gave me. I acted a fool for sometime, then walked back and asked her for my 10K. She acted surprised. 

 

You go to buy something at a Ugandan supermarket, a fridge or an electronic, the employee will whisper; "I can get it for you at a less price. Let us meet in the parking." 

 

My aunt used to run a bar. She was impressed by her new manager. Everything was balancing just perfectly. She would do the stock take on time. But sales were declining. She soon realized this person was stocking their own alcohol. Imagine, someone using your utilities, your premises, and making money on a daily. 

 

Although we complain about corruption in this country, we all seem to be active players to it. At the bottom level, there is nothing to prove that Ugandans genuinely hate corruption. 

 

After that experience with my rich friend, I decided to go slow on our rich class. I now understand why they settle on the simple things. They don't want to suffer with daily headaches. Ugandan employees will become entrepreneurs within your business. They will use your business to build their business. Someone else will use their own business to build a business. 

 

In fact, another friend told me; "In Uganda, you have to allow for a margin of theft. You have to make peace with the theft as long as it is manageable. An average Ugandan is a thief that just lacks an opportunity." 

 

After all, even maids will be removing bars of soap from homes and giving them to the neighbors. If you try to buy things in bulk in Ugandan homes, you will end up losing. The maid will start selling off the sugar, the charcoal. Spoons and forks dramatically disappear in Ugandan homes. 

 

We just need to auction our country!

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