Mr Kafeero should thank my people instead!

SIR — On September 20, Mr Ssalongo Kafeero accused me of supporting the degazetting of part of Mabira forest for sugarcane growing because “I wanted my tribesmen to be employed”! He ignored all the reasons I gave in my letter. Recruiting the people of West Nile to work in the plantations of scoul is the by-product of British colonial policy of divide and rule. it is neither a blessing nor a privilege to them. To hate us for it is strange because we work to create jobs for Kafeero’s brothers and sisters in the sugar industry. The majority of our people do contract work and retire to die in poverty at home.
To recruit them to work in the plantations causes them a lot of suffering and underdevelopment in West Nile but a great deal of development in Buganda. Therefore rather than hate us for the jobs in scoul, the likes of Kafeero should welcome us to do the donkey work while they go to sleep and produce more children, as agriculture minister, Kibirige Ssebunya, said on may 11.

M. A. P. Olubo
Arua