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| Steps that the government should take about floods ravaging the country. authored by jeptegei mercy on 3. January 2010 at 10:47 |
Floods are the moving waters that might result due to the heavy rainfall or volcanic eruption and it leads to the washing away of the top fertile soils.
Various reasons or steps can be advanced to do away with the floods in Uganda as an economy and here i can therefore give the following factors.
Encouraging people or citizens to plan more trees while also participating in deforestation so as to ensure continuous prevention of the environment .Another thing is that the government of Uganda should create sensitization programmes among the masses so as to educate the people about the significance of living in a good environment and with these therefore we can avoid floods in our country, cultivating across the hill to avoid paving way or activating the movement of water. The government should also put some strict laws governing the people who practiced bush burning , Stopping use of some dangerous things for example atomic bombs which tend to destruct the environment and finally practicing terracing , avoiding shifting cultivation among others. |
| Steps that the government should take about floods ravaging the country. authored by jeptegei mercy on 3. January 2010 at 10:45 |
Floods are the moving waters that might result due to the heavy rainfall or volcanic eruption and it leads to the washing away of the top fertile soils.
Various reasons or steps can be advanced to do away with the floods in Uganda as an economy and here i can therefore give the following factors.
Encouraging people or citizens to plan more trees while also participating in deforestation so as to ensure continuous prevention of the environment .Another thing is that the government of Uganda should create sensitization programmes among the masses so as to educate the people about the significance of living in a good environment and with these therefore we can avoid floods in our country, cultivating across the hill to avoid paving way or activating the movement of water. The government should also put some strict laws governing the people who practiced bush burning , Stopping use of some dangerous things for example atomic bombs which tend to destruct the environment and finally practicing terracing , avoiding shifting cultivation among others. |
| Flooding, Wet lands and the Environment authored by cliff on 10. June 2009 at 13:54 |
Dear fellow country men in your capacities,
Please help the local population, the Goverment and other stake holders. I believe that our beloved country Uganda is slowly losing shape and its original status because of a few so called Rich ones who are clearing WET LANDS to satisfy their personal selfish desires.
We have a very clear case in Namuwongo, Kanyogoga Zone on Bukasa Road which leads to Muyenga where one owner of a factory (Shamy Glass) is claiming a wet land. This he does in the night and brings full loads of lorries to fill the wet land around.
This Wet land is connecting to Nakivubo Channel, he is blocking all the water from the roads and neighbouring areas like Muyenga, Bukasa, Namuwonga, Kisugu and others.
He has cleared Wanaichi wells which they have been using ever since they lived there
He has blocked roads in the Vicinity and closed off some families leaving them without acessibility
He has built his factory and continues to expand it within residential area
Can the Government, NEMA, KCC and any other environmental activists come to our assistance and also help Uganda sort this problem now and forever before it is too late. |
| HOW CAN I HELP? authored by BEE on 26. October 2007 at 14:22 |
I haven't got much but I have more than I need. If I sent some of my excess belongings to the New Vision would they be re-directed to where they can be of help?
From my limited knowledge the newvision is a government newspaper, at least in part. The goverment should use all available forum(s) (what is the plural of forum?) to solicit aid not just from big charities and the UN but from ordinary Ugandans too...I know many of us who would be happy to help.
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| Stagnant authored by Alice on 24. October 2007 at 23:40 |
If you want to malnourish a country's economy and welfare, you just have to post there 1 or 2
Wabomba (s). They will be more effective than suicide bombers!
I am sorry for using such kind of expression but Wabomba has to know that we want to discuss issues to get to solutions but not to pour the evils that fill our hearts out.
I think Ugandans have gone througth enough.
But the existense of such people like the above mentioned is the greatest problem!
Mr. Wabomba; do you have a soul?
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| National campaign authored by Ellen on 22. October 2007 at 15:32 |
The floods in the Northern and Eastern parts of Uganda have been going on for more than a month now and people in these areas continue to suffer. However, as an inhabitant of the central region, I must say that hardly anything can be noticed about this in my region. People continue to carry on with their business as usual and hardly anyone talks about the suffering of our people in the Northern and Eastern parts of Uganda, who have already suffered so much because of the conflict before. There is a lack of national feeling and the floods show this once again. The people in the Southern (Central) and Western region do not feel connected to the people in the Northern and Eastern region and therefore the floods are seen as a regional problem, not a national one.
But we are all Ugandans! Therefore, I suggest that the government should start a national campaign to raise funds and food for the Northern and Eastern regions. The national campaign could be organised together with a number of aid agencies, working in these regions. This will awaken people in other parts of the country that this is a national problem, not just a problem from the North or East. And it will also contribute to the growing problem of lack of food for so many people. As Ugandans we should help each other! Please, do not say that Ugandans are poor, because we are not. Everyone can afford at least something for our suffering people. Let us show our solidarity and avoid looking at foreign donors only for issues that we can provide ourselves.
Together we can help the people in the North and East! |
| SHOWING CONCERN: authored by Erarakit001 on 17. October 2007 at 13:49 |
As a native of the flood hit area, I was very disappointed that the big guns in the government did not go to see the damage until 3 to 4 weeks into the disaster. I would have expected the President, VP, PM and the Ministers of Internal Affairs and Disaster Preparedness to have visited the hatrd-hit areas in the first week.
It was very refreshing to see the new (junior) Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness taking a positive lead and seemingly going where no senior minister dared to go.
Francis Musa Ecweru, well done! To me, you are one of the performers in the NRM government.
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| DISASTER MADE WORSE BY GOVERNMENT INDIFFERENCE: authored by Erarakit001 on 17. October 2007 at 13:41 |
"There is much being said and done for the people affected by the floods in Soroti, Katakwi, Amuria, Awoja etc and other areas outside Teso, but I am not hearing much about the people in the Kumi, Ngora, Agu, Kobwin areas. People here are also suffering a great deal and seem to be neglected as far as food and emergency supplies are concerned. The area is becoming increasingly isolated, travelling impossible and access to food extemely difficult. People are both disheartened and afraid. I realise that the Government is working hard in this crisis but please don't forget these:" Elizabeth Swarbrick.
The situation in parts of Teso is grim, and neglect of the infrastructure is illustrated in the photo showing the president visiting the "bridge" at Agu in Ngora recently:
http://www.etop.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=4&newsCategoryId=81&newsId=591398
Given that this bridge is one of the gateways to much of Soroti and western Teso, it would perhaps have been a mercy if the bridge had given way under the president's weight so that he would have seen (and felt), first hand, the effects of his government's policies. The Agu bridge, even before the floods, had deteriorated to the extent that the reinforcing metal rods were showing through and posing a hazard to road users.
The area between Agu and Kyere is a wetland between two tributaries of Kyoga, and has been invaded by "balaalo", mainly from Ankole, with thousands of cattle. Perhaps the only hope is that the government will repair the roads and bridges in the area so that these cattle keepers and their stock can be rescued (they certainly have not done anything for the benefit of the people who use this road on a daily basis).
A few miles away, on the road between Ngora and Mukongoro, lies the "bridge" at Atoot. This bridge used to be a main route from Soroti to Pallisa. A few years ago, the bridge (which used to cope with buses and lorries) in the 1960s and 1970s, became unusable. It was "repaired", but the new bridge is not wide enough to take a bus or lorry and (save for the day when President Museveni used it during the last presidential campaign and it was graded), the road is now practically unusable unless one is on a bike or on foot!
Whilre the tragedy was caused by mother nature, it has been exercabated by government policies and neglect of the infrasture.
I do not want to politicise the issue but what the NRM government does will show whether it works for the whole country, or is out to penalise those who voted heavily against it, as Teso did.
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| It could do more authored by namia hajarah on 17. October 2007 at 10:46 |
| I appreciate what the government has done to help with the northern disaster so far, but i believe it could do more..for example instead of buying black berrys for government officials who can afford them..they could channel more of that money...to help rebuild what was lost, even if it was not much considering these pple had just returned from camps. For chogam is only happening for a short time..but the suffering for the pple in the North is continous they lost their crops in the flood..that means no food of their own for some time. We should all come together anyone who can help and give the government a hand |
| YOU MAN! authored by Binsobedde on 11. October 2007 at 21:38 |
| THE NORTH has ALWAYS been a DISASTER since time immemorial!!; I MEAN THE FOLKS THEMSELVES ARE A DISASTER! It don't matter how much they get, they don't know how to spend it! EVEN if they spend anythung, it is always squanderd... this is just just of the few places n the world where darwinian existence can be observed quantitavely......ignorance and corruption |
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