Use of boda boda to deliver exams and the Kajjansi swamp

November 4, 2009 at 3:36 pm (Agriculture, Education)
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It is shocking to learn that UNEB can allow the transportation of national Exams by boda boda.  At least one accident was reported involving deliveries of exam papers on the 1st day.  Assuming the exam papers had got damaged?  UNEB must be extra careful in ensuring that transportation of papers is by motor vehicles to ensure greater safety in delivery and that the drivers are cautioned to drive carefully so as to get to the destinations safely.

It is news that at least two girls delivered in the course of the papers and good enough, else where 4 girls were allowed to sit papers though pregnant.  Much more needs to be done to ensure that primary schools girls don’t get pregnant while still at school.

There is a school where examination papers were less than the number of candidates and papers had to be got from neighbouring schools.  The issue here is whether these are not cases where papers are stolen and given out to the cheats.

Also noted was a sound bite on one FM Radio where a child was concerned as the exam papers had some similarity with what had recently been reviewed.  The truth is that with the rampant corruption, UNEB cannot fill all the loopholes that can be used by the exam cheats.

Lastly,Basoga are not only known for making chapati’s some of which are half
fried but have gone a step to encroach on a swamp found at Kajjansi as you travel towards the airstrip.  This is surely the generosity of Baganda, however, the authorities should move very fast and see a stop to this development. Papyrus is being cleared very fast for rice planting.

Willy Kituuka

UAH forumist

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Do we need to sell land to S.Africans to do farming in Uganda

October 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm (Agriculture, Education)
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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

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