Fellow Ugandans,
I’m not too sure what has happened to the government of Uganda, but, I get the feeling that they are now operating with the strategy and credo of a spoiler, If we cannot take it all, lets destroy it so that no other can ever enjoy it.
How else do you explain the ushering in of south African farmers in less than an advisory or consultancy capacity? This is a very disturbing trend indeed and in a way an admission of defeat by the current administration.
We are saying to the world that 30 million black Africans have regressed so far back to have lost the most ancient skill necessary for survival, “farming”.
How much more knowledge does a south African farmer bring to the table to warrant yet another tribe land wrangle in our mix?
We all saw how much effort it took the native south African to reclaim their land, besides why put us into such a vulnerable position to put us in bed with a people who have historically demostrated such hatred for the native African!
Well, we are now paying the cost of refusing to train and equip our own with modern farming techniques, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has given us several hints on available scholarships, where they could train our agriculturalists up to the PHD level, as long as we provide them food and shelter.
You’d think our government would have jumped to such an opportunity, but, no one seems to be in the capacity building department of our country. We need those lights in the human capital department turned on and working for us.
How could we as Africans ever dream of taking a man to the moon , if something as simple as putting a seed in the ground, irrigating with fertilizers, requires the selling off of our land to a rich neighbour to relieve us of the nightmare of cultivating it on our own.
NO, Mr. Museveni, there has to be a point in your development where you can say with some determination ”I CAN DO IT ON MY OWN”
Tendo
Ugandan in Boston
