Excellence: Working Smart and not Hard
Theme Verse:
Quotes and Sayings
Amagezi amatono gakooya bigere
2000 dollars: $1 dollar, hitting; $1999 knowing where to hit
Thesis phrase:
Where is the solution? What is smartness?
Scriptural Text(s):
Today’s trends
The Challenge of Corruption: Ethics (Olweny- UMU), Philosophy (Ahimbisibwe - MATSS)?
Poverty (UBOS Household Survey Report): 22% (from 24.5%) poor (~7.5 million out of 33.9 million current population), income inequality now 43.1% from 42.6%; Povery distr – North 49%, East 27.7%, West 9.2%, Central 5.2%
Leadership: the need for leaders – KYU woes, KCCA woes,
Exegetical Insights
Applications
Where is the solution? What is smartness?
- Is it putting on stillettos on leggings or body socks with a fitting mini dress?
- Is it speaking bombastic words…
- Is it just capturing the opportunity of other people’s weaknesses and bedding and dumping at will just to satisfy your selfish bodily desires while she remains deeply wounded?
- Songs: “when God made you”…
- How to avoid a break up – making a relationship work…
- Is it about calling yourself good names: eg a cleaner = a sanitary officer, a driver= a senior transport officer; a poor nation=LDC (least developed country) or developing economy… - talking about LDCs, Uganda is among the 49, and oil may not do much because Angola and Equatoria Guinea were where we are 10 ro 15 years ago and hoped to lift themselves out of poverty, but things have not changed. “Oil-rich LDCs such as Angola and Equatorial Guinea saw strong economic expansion in the global boom years from 2002 to 2008 but relied too heavily on energy exports, which failed to generate jobs, and now the growth has slowed, he said.”
Kituyi lauded Ethiopia as an example of an LDC that was on the right track, building 6,000 km of roads, 2,000 km of rail and hydropower projects including a $3.3 billion mega-dam.
"The whole country is a construction site. For the short term, that's a main driver of employment creation," he said.
But Tesfachew said Ethiopia also needed to ensure it did not simply nurture an appetite for imported consumer goods among its new middle class.
He cited Angola as an example of a country that had not handled its rapid economic growth wisely.
"We were shocked to learn that at the moment the most expensive city in the world is (the Angolan capital) Luanda... It's just ridiculous, it's out of control. The injection of this massive capital is distorting prices," he said.
"It should change focus by using the revenue from oil to develop sectors and activities that will reduce this heavy dependence on imports," said Tesfachew, noting that the former big coffee exporter now had to buy the commodity from abroad.
On abortions:
The latest estimates from the Ministry of Health indicate that a total of 292,000 abortions are carried out annually in Uganda. This translates to 800 per day and experts say that more than a half of these are procured using crude methods.
State Minister for Primary Health Care Sarah Opendi said majority of the abortions happening in Uganda every day often result in death, disability and other consequences.
“In reality we know that achieving the maternal mortality target will be impossible unless we open our eyes and tackle the causes including unsafe abortion that contributes about 25 per cent of the maternal death in our country,” she said.
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