Ugandans,
Mr.Tendo message below is pointing at a very problem we have in Uganda and about Uganda. Number one he is calling my project an “a just grow eggs” project. This project was to employ a minimum at least 800 Ugandans in Kiwoko. If I can get good paying jobs to 800 Ugandans not in Kampala but in Kiwoko I will have created a market for whatever you as a biochemist will be doing in Uganda, for it all has to come back to the market of Ugandans.
Creating jobs can never be started from high end but from a lower end. You cannot create jobs in Uganda paying 15 dollars an hour, there is no way you can do that. Yes you can do them in the line you are talking about but you will be taking very minimal Ugandans to have those jobs and that is not my target. I need jobs created at a lower end a people with jobs that require a minimum of education for they are massive and running all over the place. So kindly do not laugh at my project for trust me your Drs and directors have failed to work in Uganda because the government does not support those initiatives. Do you know why? Because they know that if that initiative would have worked they would have taken it up already any ways. The road to South Juba is being made today not to the advantage of Ugandans but to the advantages of Uganda governors that have hundreds of trailers that go to South Sudan, if the Movement had done a road with a purpose of helping Ugandans, surely we have hundreds of roads where trucks bringing in Matoke or other agriculture products find it hard to drive through, why not those roads but Juba road?
Uganda’s economy has been abandoned for very long and we must be very careful that we do not start this society from researching how to split up atoms. How can we start those industries when we cannot even assess the environmental problems that come with them. In the end we will start seeing a whole lot of diseases for a one doctor started Bio-manufacturing when other sectors that can monitor those industries are not anywhere in Uganda. Look there are things we manufacture in Canada but we need to send samples to the states or vice versa for these labs are so expensive to even start them all over the place. How much ground work has Uganda done to prepare for this high end jobs? Even a poultry farm of this size has environmental problems it can create that had to be considered yet it looks very basic plan.
So we need to slow down and start with things we can have a control on based on a simple fact that Uganda has been sleeping for thirty years under Museveni and Obote 2, and we start with sectors that can create basic jobs and jobs that can be monitored. And here is another one you are going to laugh at.
I want you to look closely at the transportation sector, all Great Lakes trailers go through Uganda to Mombassa every day and every night. What if we repair the railway system so that we have a very dependable freight train running from Mombassa to Kampala and Kasese twice a week? So a massive train departs Mombasa and it loads everything going to Uganda Rwanda, Burundi, DRC and South Sudan. It reaches Kampala and off loads everything to Uganda then it heads straight through into Kasese. Now we go to Kasese and we build a massive transportation hub that can accommodate all trailers coming from and going to all the listed countries. So a container going to Kigali is picked from Kasese as a one to Burundi and South Sudan. By building that hub you have done several things {a} you have taken all trailers off Uganda roads from Busia/Malaba to Western Uganda. You have made the roads safer and saved lives but you can transfer the funds that have been repairing these roads every two months to another project, a hospital a power supply something but I have just taken the monster of repairing the roads and accidents off the government hands. {b} A government now has a right to declare all roads in Buganda trailer less. {c} You have created an enormous numbers of jobs in Kasese to feed on this one hub, for they will need custom officers, clearing agents, transporters, loaders and off loaders from both the train and the trailers, you need motels for these people to live in, restaurants to eat in and so on. The spin off jobs I have just created in Kasese are in thousands that your so called bio chemists will not create in ten years. And how do I maintain Kasese with infrastructure? By introducing a fee of 100 dollars as a Kasese Town Council fee on every container leaving or coming into Kasese, and all cars imported there in.
But here is the best part. Some Banyoro will move to Kasese from Kampala to build themselves a chain of hotels to be used by these foreigners coming to take their containers. Many of our politicians become professional politicians for they have nothing to do with their time. A very reason Museveni collected them and took them to Chakamuchaka. REDUNDANCY.
Uganda’s problem is very large and we cannot attack it by reasoning as the Movementists, for anyone to think today that you can take a bio chemist in Uganda to create jobs, must be thinking as a Movementist that decides to create a barter trade without thinking about the ramifications. And by the way many Ugandans of that class have gone to Uganda started to work and have either ran out in the night or they have joined to steal things in Uganda. The guy that destroyed the post office corporation communication came from Toronto.
We need to think yes, but we need to think critically.
EM
Toronto
