MUSEVENI, HIS POLICIES & ECONOMIC INSECURITY AMONG UGANDANS AFTER 30 YEARS IN POWER!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To understand poverty one must understand the indignity of those living in it first. I have traversed Uganda to its remotest points and my conclusions are simple. Uganda suffers from structural poverty. I have also travelled around Africa and around the world and would not compare Ugandas poverty levels to that of Mali or The Gambia. I am talking about 30 years of opportunity for Uganda and Singapore or Mauritius for comparison purposes. I am talking about 30 years as a resource among other resources. Every village in Uganda is littered with the young and old with crest fallen faces and largely emac iarmed frames. Beneath are fading hopes of their dreams as time passes on and their physical frames succumb to the wear and tear of nature. The questions that lingers in the minds of progressive and system thinkers will always boil down to key performance indicators tracked accurately by well defined metrics to help attribute sources of vertical mobility, momentum or the lack of it through a cause-effect logic process. Personally, this is why NRM scores very dismally when I put their stuff through my prism. To transform Uganda economically and politically the political elite must set a nationally shared program agenda that we are all committed to be held accountable too. Without commitment by leaders to be held accountable on a program they themselves set to achieve in public interest; it becomes clear that there is no mechanism to address accountability or infuse lessons learned into performance improvement program for future investments. High Priority Challenge 1) Low economic productivity due structural bottle necks to commercialize and industrialize production. You can de-couple this one into many things for tactical level analysis. Economic effeciency, cost management, reward systems, unemployment, inflation, education, research and development etc. Without strategically addressing the above through the National Development Plans(NDPs), and the lack of commitment by government to be held accountable for the results or the lack of them by the people; Uganda will be host to an old non pensionable population of old people in the next two decades because despite people getting an education, are largely unemployed, poorly paid without contracts and no claims thus as this workforce grows old and age away; without a welfare state a large part of this group will shift back to rural communities as it is already to languish in poverty perpetuating the cycle. A non productive population is an economic burden so jobs must not be seen as political rewards but a mechanism for every consumer to add value to the economic system rather than taking from the system. An economy which does not produce jobs for its workforce is a sham economy. And jobs ONLY remain meaningful when they are demand driven by the level of economic activity as a factor of production. So after 30 years of NRM and MU7s monotonous nomadic economic policies; Uganda needs a more scientific approach to re-engineer the economy to stimulate production. 1) Uganda needs sufficient energy generation capacity even before the rail line and distribution to facilitate industrial production. High energy supply and distribution means lowered demand thus low unit prices which in effect attracts investment as energy is a factor of production and a function of product or commodity prices. 2) The transport, security and communication infrastructure has been upgraded to a significant extent irrespective of the high cost. What remains is how this infrastructure can compliment the energy matrix to drive up production and supply good and services first to meet the regional markets before even considering exports to far markets. Energy will remain a strategic security challenge to decelerating the pangs of poverty and unemployment as long as the Chinese and MUSEVENI are only concerned about how much natural resources are to be extracted from Uganda using the standard gauge railway line and the former; the cash flow to finance his political business. 30 years in power; the depth of poverty in rural communities, without mentioning the urban poor, is absolute indictement on NRM and MUSEVENI. ------------------------------------------------------- GEN.MAVERICK ON TOXIC POVERTY & UNEMPLOYMENT
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