Rwakakamba Disputes Kampala Floods Images!!

On Wednesday, November 11, 2015, Voice Of America (VOA) host Shaka Ssali and his co-host Mariama Diallo, a Social Media reporter, they had two guests in the Washington DC and New York studios, discussing about the 2016, Uganda presidential campaign, which has seven candidates contesting alongside the incumbent, Gen. Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986.

The VOA host Shaka and his guests, Morrison Rwakakamba, a special assistant to Gen. Museveni and Milton Allimadi, the Editor - in- Chief of the New York leading Investigative newspaper The Black Star News. The trio discussed several issues ranging from; the independence of the Uganda Electoral Commission, the rigging of the elections, the previous Supreme Court rulings on alleged malpractices in the past elections, the vision of the incumbent, how he's been re-elected or mandated by the people. They also discussed about the social services to the people , which include the health system and the state of the road networks in the country.

Mr Rwakakamba praised the health system and the general picture of situation in country. The road networks and he went on to say that anybody who hasn't been in the country for a long time wouldn't know the nature developments or the beauty of the road networks in Uganda. Mr Rwakakamba articulate could possibly earn him a place in a November Will Riston competition, an annual event in Cambria-England, which has only seen one African as winner, South Africa' Abries Krueger, in 2003. The event is the World's Biggest Liar Day.

It is unheard of for honourable person to stand before the audience of millions of worldwide viewers and defend a false story of miracle achievements.

Only that Mr Rwakakamba did forget one thing, in this digital world; one can access the remotest area in the world with 2 minutes. Knowing the state of Uganda health system and the state of the road networks only require less than 5 minutes.

Let us forget or rather ignore the complexity and the sophistication involved in the polls rigging but concentrate on the two issues; the conditions of the road networks in the country and the Health Services system. These are two main services that nobody can hide from the reality.

For those who watched the November 11, 2015, Straight Talk Africa program on 2016 Uganda Presidential Campaign, which had hosts Shaka and Ms Diallo you must have noticed a few fibs that tripped off Mr Rwakakamba's tongue without him realising that he was going away from the truth. (Watch link: https://m.youtube.com/ ?v=VzNyra1iAhc ).

The program still available to make comparison between what Mr Rwakakamba said and the graphics coming from the scenes. Looking at a few tangible and basic services with natural evidences that one cannot manipulate or hide into the hand bags, one will judge who was telling the truth! .

Graphics that had come out from Kampala a couple of days before the VOA Straight Talk Africa program, betray Mr Rwakakamba's praises and sugar-coating the two systems that have turned into death traps.

The road have never been built on standard and hospitals have become worse than they were before the National Resistance Movement ( NRM ) took over 30-years- ago.

Though, the host of the program tried to mention something to the effect as flying the president's daughter to Germany to give birth was 'a vote of no confidence into the country's health system'. The accurate picture was some how obscured by Rwakakamba's statement of a health centre in 'every sub-county

To confirm this, when Gen. Museveni was criticised in 2003, about his actions to fly his daughter and daughter - in - law to German to give birth, he replied, that: " It is true that I sent he presidential jet to deliver part of my family to Europe so that my daughter and my daughter-in-law could deliver their babies as they were scheduled to do so around the same time."

"The question of myself and my family getting medical check-ups or treatment abroad, where necessary, is unavoidable. It is part of our strategy. ..In order to continue fighting for our country," Gen. Museveni then explained.

If the health system and hospitals were good, why would a president spend lavishly to send members of his family abroad for treatment? The simple answer is either the hospitals have got deficiencies, not fit to treat human beings or lack personnel. Previous leaders including their relative used to have their sickness treated in Mulago the country's National Referral Hospital. Today, Mulago is a death trap because, on the government's budget it's not a priority. Government officials are treated abroad. A part from a few antibiotics, many of government heath centres around the country do not have basic equipments and essential medications. Though, a few able individuals can access treatment from privately owned expensive health facilities. Yet, the sector [Health ] for the past 30 years, it has surpassed other sectors to enjoy the goodwill of donor countries' greasy hands.

An accurate picture and the importance of good road networks and a brief background of this East African country. Uganda is a landlocked country, an agricultural country with over 85 per-cent population depend on agriculture.

However, today the agricultural sector is the list funded, and only catered for in the country's annual budget with less than 2 per--cent!

What is not in the dictionary of Gen. Museveni and his echelons is that good road networks are very crucial because they link the farmers to the markets. If this is well known, then they [NRM ] intentionally, ignore and cut off the rural population from the market.

All previous regimes maintained and supervised all feeder-roads in the rural areas because Uganda is an agricultural country, and they [past leaders] knew the importance of promoting agriculture and eradication of poverty. One would be wondering that what about the usual songs of developments and tax collections. A few individuals have fraudulently accumulated wealth. Therefore, those are the ones fronted and considered to be the development of the entire country. However, the truth is beyond what is given to the outside world. The gap between the poor and rich is wider than a strip of the Red Sea.

Over 80 per cent of the rural population have got limited access to public transport network and in adverse rainy seasons, villages become secluded from the test of the country, which comes with severe social, health and economical consequences.

At the moment whenever it rains, the Kampala suburbs of Bwaise, Ndeeba, Nateete including some parts of the capital Kampala become lakes or rivers that require canoe boats for the commuters to be able to manuevour through the city. The floods also come with contaminating diseases like cholera.

The potholes and the floods are daily occurrences in the city and these are some of the unavoidable natural occurrences that put everything in the city to a stand still. It is either intentionally intended to revenge against those who do not vote for NRM or the contractors don't know how to deal with the drainage systems.

What Mr Rwakakamba did not want the viewers to know that, both potholes and the floods are part of the symptoms of the underlying structural failure to keep the waters off the surface. In addition to failure to supervise and Gen. Museveni's will to do something good for all Ugandans without discrimination. Whoever, has been with ears must have previously heard Museveni saying that to get better services, the citizens must vote for him and "the NRM Members of Parliament (MPs) and local leaders or else they won't get the services." ( Watch video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3MEnMOjr4zQ ).

Such statements are not innocent one but suggest a bigger problem. Either the resources are there but can't be provided to other nationals apart from those leaning to the ruling party. It also confirms that, civil servants are recruited into the job market on patronage basis!

The rain mustn't have done such damage in the city if the roads had been genuinely maintained or constructed in a real manner.

Therefore, the main reasons why the floods take over the city and overwhelm the city commuters and dwellers lies somewhere else; Museveni has been fighting the urban population for not supporting him and his nurtured culture of deal cuts when bidding for get contracts to construct the roads. Additionally, the will to invest and the absence of having the country at heart.

The symptoms here are just the assimilation of constructing the roads for the last 30-years have been surface dressing,

Gen. Museveni, who supervises almost every sector, as retribution for not voting him, he makes the road budgets tighter, which result into poor road systems, though roads play a huge role towards the social and economical developments.

Because for the past 30 years of Museveni’s rule, lies have become acceptable part of our ways of lives, Mr Rwakakamba is willing, sacrifice his integrity, morals and tell the world more serious untrue about the health system and the state of road networks in Uganda.