Museveni and Kikwete vow to work together

  1. Posted on Monday 5 May 2008 - 10:02
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    Fredrick Mugira, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda
    Presidents Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda have vowed to continue working together to ensure that the people of their respective countries achieve real development and economic transformation.
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    The 2 leaders were speaking at a dinner that was hosted by President Museveni at State House, Entebbe in honor of President Kikwete. The Tanzanian leader has been in Uganda on a 2-day private visit at the invitation of his host.

    President Museveni hailed the strong, fraternal and amicable relations between Uganda and Tanzania which he said date back many years. He noted that the 2 countries share a lot between them.

    “The co-operation between our two countries which are undergoing development and transformation is based on a common desire to attain a better standard of living of our people,” Mr. Museveni said.

    President Museveni continued to note that, “it is this co-operation that will make us a strong force in terms of territory and enhance our market size, bargaining power as well as the ability to improve on our infrastructure on all fronts.”

    President Jakaya Kikwete, on his part, said that Ugandans and Tanzanians have very strong historic bonds that unite their 2 countries. He stressed that Uganda and Tanzania need each other as developing countries.

    He stressed that it is through such meetings that they can exchange ideas, combine effort and, together, “tackle the challenges that face our communities like eradicating poverty.”


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  1. Posted on Friday 09 May 2008 17:02
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    Tanzania and Uganda can do better first if they develop a covenant where they can jointly focus on the development of the creative potential of their citizens by developing a joint Creativity Workshop where brilliant super-gifted individuals are brought together under government sponsordhi to develop various technologies.

    I do not think there is an international law that prohibits anytwo or more African countries to come tigether in joint programs for the advancement of ther peoples creativity and discovery. I see President Museveni, President Kikwete and President Kagame as forward looking leaders who could spearhead this kind of a project as an integral part of Africa's Marshal Development Plan strategy for the Twenty First century.

    If the two or three African leaders can come out with such a plan, other African leaders will pursue the same strategy and it will become an African Union strategy and policy. However, in order for this to happen, leaders should avoid falling into the same old colonial trap of leaning heavily on college and university graduates. These may be genius in their areas but genius is not super-gifted. Research reveals that usually, because of certain reasons, the born-super-gifted drop out of academic streams before college or university education. When a born-super-gifted earns a university degree there is no doubt that he may perform even better with his mind if his soul's creativity was not stifled or stunted in the process (which usually unfortunately is the case).

    This is why one of the points that need to be addressed regardingthe wueston of super-gifted individuals, is why they drop out of conventioanl education institutions and what can be done to ensure they don't. Every developed nation in this world has developed because there came a time when they focused on the creativity of their own people's minds. For example, Pakistan, India and China has not relied on foreign minds in the development of their nuclear power. They had to focus on their own minds and creativity.