Emiti Emito N’ekibira: Youth are Uganda’s environmental future but they are being turned into pollutants in foreign lands
Ninety-four per cent of Ugandans rely on unsustainably sourced fuel wood, with gas being prohibitively expensive, the vast majority of Ugandans rely on charcoal or firewood that has been harvested from national forests or the private lands of impoverished farmers. There has been a 180 per cent charcoal price increase in the past six years
In Uganda environmental impact assessment is usually a presidentialist con to enable Museveni to push his agenda
Corporate sustainability deception or corporate sustainability fraud continues to predominate in the EIA process and to cause great suffering especially in the poor countries where corporates undertake projects and programmes not so much to spur development as to make money.
Africa: Where an avalanche of ‘honourables’ and ‘excellencies’ do dishonourable things to our environment
Even when they deny others their entitlements such as employment, education, transport, medicines, and various opportunities such serving as soldiers, police officers or business people etc, they retain their titles of honourable, right honourable and excellency. They will retain the tiles even if they are central to generating divisions and conflicts along ethnic lines.
Environmental racism and ethnic nepotism in Uganda are outcomes of Museveni’s apartheid-style governance
Ethnic nepotism is integral to racism and, like environmental racism, it promotes apartheid style leadership, governance and lifestyles whereby one ethnic group captures virtually all civic spaces, leadership and governance with other ethnic groups effectively excluded from leadership, governance and business and only act second fiddle to those of the ethnic group in power.
Environment in Uganda is the theatre where leaders trade indigenous rights for cheap Chinese and Indian toys
The 1995 Constitution, designed by the very group of people in power today strategically places all the natural resources of Uganda in the singular hands of the President Tibuhaburwa Museveni, who has several times stated that what matters today are interests, not identities (of the indigenous groups of Ugandans. The interests are political, military, economic, financial, as well as the use of these to dominate and conquer the indigenes well in the future.
Trusting Museveni with environment is suicidal, Ugandans must reclaim institution of president and civic power over it
In pursuit of its environmentally unconscious decisions and actions in the total environment of Uganda, power has frequently ignored the constitutional boundaries between the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary, with dire environmental consequences in all the dimensions of the environment: ecological-biological, socioeconomic, sociocultural and temporal.
Dear Ugandans, Museveni and his disciples maybe guilty of ‘environmental stupidity’ but you gave him an open cheque for the travesty
Often the kind of education a society propagates will determine whether or not a people have the knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insights necessary to mange and conserve the environment wisely, meaningfully and effectively.
Uganda’s environmental crisis turns searchlight on Museveni’s bankruptcy of ideas, resources and expertise
An inherent conflict exists between the policies underlying environmental and bankruptcy laws. Environmental laws, on the one hand, are designed to protect public health and safety by providing for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response to the release or disposal of hazardous substances. The goals of our bankruptcy laws, on the other hand, are to provide debtors with a fresh start by preserving their assets for equitable distribution
Genocide: During Museveni’s 40-year reign over a million people were killed by Uganda military and rebels
We are aware that justice is becoming more and more captured the military and militarised as the judiciary is becoming more and more subject to the dictates of the executive. We are also increasingly aware of the disappearance of police in Uganda police with soldiers in command and in the rank and file of the police force and more and more subject to the dictates of the CDF. The Citizens cannot easily distinguish between the soldiers and policemen/women when human rights Violations are carried out by men and women in uniform.
Industrial factory farming: If use of cereals as animal feed were ended, two billion more people could be fed
The IFC website dismisses as a myth the argument that industrial animal production is bad for the environment. However, factory farms disgorge large amounts of manure, slurry and ammonia that pollute air and watercourses.
