Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived in Tokyo late Thursday for his first official visit to Japan as Head of State and Government.
officials said the President’s five-day visit is aimed at boosting bilateral and trade relations between Kenya and Japan.
It also targets enhancing the existing technical and development cooperation between the two countries.
President Kenyatta will separately hold talks Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Emperor Akihito, stomach http://cupidfemalecondoms.com/wp-includes/class-wp-term.php as well as other high-ranking government officials.
The President will also join other Heads of State and Government attending the 3rdUN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture.
The Conference is the first large-scale multilateral conference for the post-2015 development agenda.
It will assess and review the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, an international guiding principle on disaster risk reduction from 2005 to 2015 adopted at the Second World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe City, Japan, in 2005. At least 15 Heads of Government are scheduled to attend, organisers said.
The Head of State’s itinerary also includes attending a Kenya-Japan Business Forum and meeting Kenyan Diaspora working and residing in Japan.
The business forum will bring together high-profile business leaders from both Kenya and Japan.
The plane carrying the President and his entourage touched down at Narita International Airport shortly after 6.00 p.m. Tokyo time (12 noon Nairobi).
President Kenyatta and his entourage, which includes National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, was received at the airport by senior Japanese Government officials and the Kenyan Ambassador to Japan, Amb. Solomon Maina.
By Duncan Abigaba
A self-exiled Ugandan journalist based in Nairobi this week ran an article in one of Uganda’s dailies challenging the NRM leaders and members to respond to issues raised by the FDC President in his speech at the launch of the FDC Policy Agenda.
Firstly, there http://cbpa.com/wp-includes/class-wp-http-cookie.php I wish to congratulate the FDC fraternity on their change of methodology from civil disobedience to intellectual discourse. The world order in pursuit of political power has long since changed.
Multiparty dispensation has created an enabling environment for political and intellectual engagement rather than engaging in subversive activities. Extending an invite to the NRM Secretary General was itself a great leap in the democratic development of our country.
Well, link Muntu raises very pertinent issues and which can’t be ignored but rather should be critically analysed. Of course the entire script reads like launch of Obama campaign, the Chicago night in Illinois. Plans are easily laid than realised. I have always argued that the mission of our generation is to consolidate, to uphold and to build on the achievements of the NRM government.
This government has been elected regularly every five years since 1996 and with an overwhelming margin. Muntu argues that the current regime measures progress in relation to where we are coming from rather than where we should be. How then can we measure progress if we don’t know where we are coming from?
If we take the economy alone for example, Uganda’s economy has consistently grown at 7.2 percent per annum way above the average 2.4 percent of the Sub-Saharan economies. Our economy now stands at $24.9b and is 17th on the African continent. This is much better than many African countries that have had relative peace since independence and enjoy favourable geographical features like a coastline.
Muntu compares Uganda’s economy with Vietnam’s, both countries having gone through related political conflicts before. Does he consider Vietnam’s comparative advantage over Uganda such as a coastline, human resource development before the civil conflicts etc?
All these must be critically studied before we can make conclusions about Vietnam. Because of its unflinching commitment to the prosperity for all Ugandans, NRM has already formulated and launched a National Development Plan (NDP), Vision 2040 as a planning frame work and instrument for transforming from a peasant into a middle income economy.
On issues of governance, over the last twenty nine years, NRM Government has made considerable progress in consolidating political stability, law and order, democracy and respect for human rights.
The earlier years of military coups, armed groups, civil wars, refuge flows, human rights abuses, and a failing state have now become history. This is landmark achievement hailed across the country, the world and is a distinction between NRM and other parties.
Several institutions have been established and they continue to be strengthened to streamline democratic governance. These include; the Inspectorate of Government, the independent Office of Auditor General, Uganda Human Rights Commission, the Electoral Commission, the multiparty political system and the judiciary as an independent arm of government. Apparently, there is more than 30 percent women representation in parliament. Affirmative action has been a great score.
On infrastructure development, NRM took over ruins of a damaged country in 1986. Power generation had fallen from 150MW in 1962 to 60MW in 1986. We apparently boost of around 1,000 MW. With construction works on going at Karuma dam, Ayago dam, Isimba dam and several small power projects, Uganda will be generating 3,855MW by close of 2016.
Clean water coverage in urban areas has risen to approximately 90 percent whereas the rural coverage stands at 70 percent.
In the last five years, over 3,000KM of roads have been tarmacked and so many construction works are on-going including the Entebbe-Express Highway, the Mbarara Northern Bypass etc. Much of these works perhaps 70 percent are funded by the government of Uganda.
On social services, education has registered very steady progress. NRM has education for all policy. There has been introduction of Universal Primary (UPE) Education, Universal Secondary Education (USE) and free Business Technical Vocational & Entrepreneur Training (BTVET).
There are approximately 10 million pupils in primary school. Muntu argues that most of these don’t sit their Primary Leaving Examinations. I believe those who don’t complete their primary level drop out to join free vocation training schools which were established at every sub county. But even the drop outs have acquired basic skills of literacy. Uganda boosts of over 50 percent literacy level, one of the best in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Education
Enrolment in secondary schools stood at 1,194,000 in 2010 and there are 40,000 graduates out of tertiary institutions every year.
There are on-going works to rehabilitate and expand the National Referral Hospital, Mulago and other autonomous clinics at the hospital notably; Uganda Heart Institute and the Uganda Cancer Institute. These works have also been on-going on the 13 regional referral hospitals.
On defence, security and foreign relations, Uganda has been at the forefront of a strong East African Community (EAC), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) as well as Inter–Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The UPDF has been engaged in the fight against terrorism in Somalia. They have also been holding on to the break out of a severe civil war in South Sudan and other peace keeping missions in Africa. I salute Gen. Muntu for contributing to the building of our army.
I congratulate the FDC on the launch of their Policy Agenda. I implore comrades both in NRM and opposition to embrace this new democratic order, to engage in meaningful debate that can generate better policies in order to move our country forward.
Duncan Abigaba
The author is a member of the NRM Youth League
By Duncan Abigaba
A self-exiled Ugandan journalist based in Nairobi this week ran an article in one of Uganda’s dailies challenging the NRM leaders and members to respond to issues raised by the FDC President in his speech at the launch of the FDC Policy Agenda.
Firstly, sales http://clasica885.com/components/com_k2/templates/generic.php I wish to congratulate the FDC fraternity on their change of methodology from civil disobedience to intellectual discourse. The world order in pursuit of political power has long since changed.
Multiparty dispensation has created an enabling environment for political and intellectual engagement rather than engaging in subversive activities. Extending an invite to the NRM Secretary General was itself a great leap in the democratic development of our country.
Well, illness http://craigpatchett.com/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php Muntu raises very pertinent issues and which can’t be ignored but rather should be critically analysed. Of course the entire script reads like launch of Obama campaign, the Chicago night in Illinois. Plans are easily laid than realised. I have always argued that the mission of our generation is to consolidate, to uphold and to build on the achievements of the NRM government.
This government has been elected regularly every five years since 1996 and with an overwhelming margin. Muntu argues that the current regime measures progress in relation to where we are coming from rather than where we should be. How then can we measure progress if we don’t know where we are coming from?
If we take the economy alone for example, Uganda’s economy has consistently grown at 7.2 percent per annum way above the average 2.4 percent of the Sub-Saharan economies. Our economy now stands at $24.9b and is 17th on the African continent. This is much better than many African countries that have had relative peace since independence and enjoy favourable geographical features like a coastline.
Muntu compares Uganda’s economy with Vietnam’s, both countries having gone through related political conflicts before. Does he consider Vietnam’s comparative advantage over Uganda such as a coastline, human resource development before the civil conflicts etc?
All these must be critically studied before we can make conclusions about Vietnam. Because of its unflinching commitment to the prosperity for all Ugandans, NRM has already formulated and launched a National Development Plan (NDP), Vision 2040 as a planning frame work and instrument for transforming from a peasant into a middle income economy.
On issues of governance, over the last twenty nine years, NRM Government has made considerable progress in consolidating political stability, law and order, democracy and respect for human rights.
The earlier years of military coups, armed groups, civil wars, refuge flows, human rights abuses, and a failing state have now become history. This is landmark achievement hailed across the country, the world and is a distinction between NRM and other parties.
Several institutions have been established and they continue to be strengthened to streamline democratic governance. These include; the Inspectorate of Government, the independent Office of Auditor General, Uganda Human Rights Commission, the Electoral Commission, the multiparty political system and the judiciary as an independent arm of government. Apparently, there is more than 30 percent women representation in parliament. Affirmative action has been a great score.
On infrastructure development, NRM took over ruins of a damaged country in 1986. Power generation had fallen from 150MW in 1962 to 60MW in 1986. We apparently boost of around 1,000 MW. With construction works on going at Karuma dam, Ayago dam, Isimba dam and several small power projects, Uganda will be generating 3,855MW by close of 2016.
Clean water coverage in urban areas has risen to approximately 90 percent whereas the rural coverage stands at 70 percent.
In the last five years, over 3,000KM of roads have been tarmacked and so many construction works are on-going including the Entebbe-Express Highway, the Mbarara Northern Bypass etc. Much of these works perhaps 70 percent are funded by the government of Uganda.
On social services, education has registered very steady progress. NRM has education for all policy. There has been introduction of Universal Primary (UPE) Education, Universal Secondary Education (USE) and free Business Technical Vocational & Entrepreneur Training (BTVET).
There are approximately 10 million pupils in primary school. Muntu argues that most of these don’t sit their Primary Leaving Examinations. I believe those who don’t complete their primary level drop out to join free vocation training schools which were established at every sub county. But even the drop outs have acquired basic skills of literacy. Uganda boosts of over 50 percent literacy level, one of the best in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Education
Enrolment in secondary schools stood at 1,194,000 in 2010 and there are 40,000 graduates out of tertiary institutions every year.
There are on-going works to rehabilitate and expand the National Referral Hospital, Mulago and other autonomous clinics at the hospital notably; Uganda Heart Institute and the Uganda Cancer Institute. These works have also been on-going on the 13 regional referral hospitals.
On defence, security and foreign relations, Uganda has been at the forefront of a strong East African Community (EAC), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) as well as Inter–Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The UPDF has been engaged in the fight against terrorism in Somalia. They have also been holding on to the break out of a severe civil war in South Sudan and other peace keeping missions in Africa. I salute Gen. Muntu for contributing to the building of our army.
I congratulate the FDC on the launch of their Policy Agenda. I implore comrades both in NRM and opposition to embrace this new democratic order, to engage in meaningful debate that can generate better policies in order to move our country forward.
Duncan Abigaba
The author is a member of the NRM Youth League
Tooro King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV has disclosed that Africa as a continent will play the leading role in feeding a global population of 9 billion by 2050.
He said, page http://changescale.org/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar%202/src/deprecated/tribesettingstab.php “Uganda and her neighbours are the bread baskets of Africa. With the 65 percent of the world’s remaining arable lands being in Africa, price it’s not an unrealistic dream that by 2050 Africa will be leading in feeding the world’s biggest population.
King Oyo was speaking during the Global Leaders Forum for Innovations in Agriculture held in Abu Dhabi in Dubai that kicked off on Monday.
He told the conference that his kingdom and Uganda are blessed with fertile soils, more about good and favorable climate and strong hard working people.
King Oyo said, “My kingdom and Uganda at large have embarked on an aggressive program of agricultural development that will be managed through the kingdom. I want to develop 100,000acres of land for tree harvesting and increase banana exports from 100,000 to 150,000 tones per year”.
He called on the potential and reliable partners to explore and develop the kingdom land aggressively.
King Oyo, who said that this noble goal cannot be realized without the innovators from around the world; invited scientists, innovators, private sector, investors and international development community to refocus their efforts to Africa.
He assured the participants that Ugandans are hospitable and President Museveni has provided an enabling peaceful environment for the investors to exploit the opportunities and resources available.
His majesty thanked the government of Abu Dhabi, in particular his Highness Sheikh Mansour for hosting such a global event that brings together prominent leaders in the field of agriculture, Health and environment.
On Monday this week, King Oyo flew to Abu Dhabi in Dubia for a leaders’ conference on agriculture leaving his kingdom in power crisis.
Prince David Kijanangoma a cousin to Oyo declared war that he would overthrow him accusing him of failed administration, failed to lobby and develop the kingdom and Queen mother Interference in palace affair and land grabbing.
