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Besigye says earning leads to destruction

Gerald Businge — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:13:28 +0000

I am Harold Kaija, one of the aides of Uganda’s main opposition leader, Col. Kiiza Besigye. I have a story I want to tell you colleagues.

In 1923, eight of the wealthiest people in the world met. Their combined wealth, it is estimated, exceeded the wealth of the government of the United States at that time. These men certainly knew how to make a living and accumulate wealth. But let’s examine what happened to them 25 years later. 1. President of the largest steel company, Charles Schwab, lived on borrowed capital for Five …years before he died bankrupt.
2. President of the largest gas company, Howard Hubson, went insane.
3. One of the greatest commodity traders, Arthur Cutton, died insolvent.
4. President of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was sent to jail.
5. A member of the President’s Cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned from jail to go home and die in peace.
6. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, Jessie Livermore committed suicide.
7. President of the world’s greatest monopoly, Ivar Krueger, committed suicide.
8. President of the Bank of International Settlement, Leon Fraser, Committed Suicide.
What they forgot was how to make life! Money in itself is not evil! Money provides food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, Clothes for the needy; Money is only a medium of exchange. We need two kinds of education:
(a) One that teaches us how to make a living and
(b) One that teaches us how to live.

There are people who are so engrossed in their professional life that they neglect their family, health and social responsibilities. If asked why they do this they would reply that they were doing it for their family. Our kids are sleeping when we leave home. They are sleeping when we come home. Twenty years later, we’ll turn back, and they’ll all be gone.

Without water, a ship cannot move. The ship needs water, but if the water gets into the ship, the ship will face problems. What was once a means of living for the ship will now become a means of destruction? Similarly we live in time where earning is necessity but let not the earning enter our hearts, for what was once a means of living will become a means of destruction.

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Types of pests that cause plant destruction

Gerald Businge — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:11:48 +0000

Farmers around Uganda are in a planting season. So as farmers plant crops we have decided to bring to you the pests which destroy our crops and how they could be fought. Even if farmers plant high quality products but fail to fight the pests, they stand to lose their produce. The following are some of the pests/insects that destroy our crops-

Beetles, ants, bees, flies, butterflies, grasshoppers, tiny worms like nematodes, multi-cellular organisms found in the soils, and pathogens. Pathogens include bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. Parasites sometimes can not be seen by naked houses.

Pathogens can infect humans, animals and plants. Pathogens include rust, smut, stalk rot, blight, common scab, canker, leaf spot, bacterial wilt and maize streak.

Small and big animals (rodents) such as rats, mice, birds, bats and flying foxes, bats, wild boar, pigs, monkeys and baboons also damage our crops. Farmers need to use insecticides, acaricide and miticide for the protection of their crops.

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Kibaale Bakiga group wants 33 billion compensation from government

Gerald Businge — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:18:25 +0000

A group of more than 3000 people from Kibaale district have taken government to the High court seeking compensation of more than 33 billion shillings arising out of damage occasioned to them during the 2001 Local Council Five elections.
The residents from five sub-counties claim they were forced to go into hiding for 3 years after their houses were burnt down, animals stolen and crops destroyed by agencies of government including police, sub-county chiefs and Gombolola internal security members.

They claim that this destruction came in form of a punishment towards them for supporting a one Fred Ruremeera, who won the said election.

Through their lawyer, Henry Ruhaganika, the aggrieved residents say that despite President Yoweri Museveni’s promise of compensation in April 2005, they have never received any monies to that effect.

The complainants yesterday appeared at the High Court for the hearing of their case before Justice Eldad Mwanguhya but the case could not go on because they had to get a valuer and also get a place which can accommodate all the complainants.

The case was adjourned to the July 3rd 2012.

In 2001 Fred Ruremera, an ethnic Mukiga, was elected Kibale district chairman. A group of radical Banyoro protested sparking tribal clashes between native Banyoro and migrant Bakiga in the area. This forced government to prevail over Ruremera to resign his seat and a compromise LC5 chairman George Nyamyaka was elected to the post.

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