Comments for Let’s mark Uganda’s independence - no matter the failures at http://www.independent.co.ug , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.independent.co.ug Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:32:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20634 Of course the current Presidency likes that way because there are many better days this gentleman feels are more important to him and to the nation he leads. Yagenda kuyigga. Neyefunira enyama ye. Mr Kagenda is a good dreamer who can only be blamed that he should be writing this historical article in a plush bangalow at home in his province in Uganda. One can bet, he is one of these African professors without an African project to be proud of having done, and he is very home sick overseas. The great economic infrastructure that the State of Buganda had managed to wrestle from the British which Mr Atwooki talks about is in a worrying state right now. Atwooki is a Munyoro tribesman, and his province right now is in the spotlight ready to cause another crisis in this country. These people think that the world is them only and their great former Empire. - kabayekka Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:49:24 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20427 Aleast the Protectorate Police Force was efficient and they fulfilled their responsibilities very well. Do we now controll our own resources in the interest of the people of Uganda? Better to be enslaved by a foriegner than to be enslaved by a fellow Ugandan. Infact Uganda should be given back to the U.K. - tibezinda Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:01:27 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20415 If many people keep away from the Independence celebrations or fail to celebrate, it is time to take pause. Why should the people be unenthusiastic, lethargic, indifferent? Could it be that the event has lost meaning? I remember under Amin I hated both the Ugandan flag and the Uganda anthem. Could it be because other liberationist days have overshadowed our independence? After all, haven't many people and not only in Uganda decrying "uhuru wa bendera" (flag independence only)? - Rev Amos Kasibante Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:08:10 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20341 Why should anyone intelligent cerebrate a failure ? Can Obote , Amin , Lule , Muwanga , Okello , Mutesa tell their childrens children that Ugandas Independence changed their lives for the better ? - Jespa Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:26:58 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20323 Uganda has failed to live up to the gains of Independence. How can we say there is independence when the current rulers have resorted to the same discriminatory policies of divide and rule copied from the colonialist. How can Uganda claim independence when millions are treated like second class citizens in their own country. Uganda won its independence on the 9th of October 1962 and lost it from January 1986...Having experienced discrimination and exploitation under European rule, Independence in 1962 was supposed to usher in total freedom and equality for the black Ugandan. It is disappointing that today black Ugandans are discriminating against fellow black Africans.True independence will only be realized when no Ugandan feels left out and they have a stake in their country. This is the birth right of every Ugandan. Independence day should be a day of reflection. How to regain Uganda's lost independence instead of engaging in premature celebrations. - Osiris Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:51:19 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20282 I commend your newspaper for its vibrancy and for its firm belief in holding the government accountable to the people? Though this year's Independence Day has come and gone, it is hardly difficult to recognise why this year's independence anniversary was marked with little fanfare, a sharp contrast to what it was in the 1960s, 1970s and perhaps 1980s. But while we are grateful to God for keeping us together as a nation, despite the numerous challenges we have faced- religious intolerance, civil unrest, the LRA and a host of others, the pain of underdevelopment which continues to stare us in the face was perhaps the kernel for the sober celebration - Matovu Abu Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:33:25 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20254 This is the kind of sentimenatlity that serves no purpose, except to excuse failure and incompetence of the worst leadership of one of the worst modern histories. It is past time to be celebrating independence for sentimental reasons, when the quality of lives of average ugandans has gotten worse not better; the politics of Uganda is brutal and sectarian; facts that are embarrasing for most Ugandans to admit. What was the point of gaining independence ? So that some Ugandans could kill and butcher others with impunity and have them live the most miserable lives , since nobody can blame or accuse us ? That is some indepedence; its now postindependence. - Ocheto Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:45:20 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20235 Total destruction of the leadership in Uganda is the best solution. - Watcher Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:42:52 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/special-report/1935-lets-mark-ugandas-independence-no-matter-the-failures#comment-20231 Most of Uganda's leaders seem not to have understood the meaning of independence when one tracks their records, they fail to translate this so valued date to its real objectivity. Each of them, starting with Obote, successively managed to twist or coup' (Amin and Okello) the very constitution to suit obscured acclamation and as a result lengthy raw history has been laid down for generations and that is probably why many Ugandans especially young ones don't value or understand what independence really means except for the history taught at schools that the Whiteman departed from our country on October 9! Because following this there have been subsequent bankruptcy in upholding the diginity of Uganda as a Republic in the words written in the constituion; the very document we witness our leaders swear to uphold! Why betray Ugandans? For God And My Country. - Russo Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:48:04 +0100