DECISION MAKING AND SITUATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
Life if full of diverse encounters both meaningful, worthy celebrating, regretful and unforgivable –whose remedy could be thought to be revenge or otherwise, suicide and aggression of all forms.

The origin of such encounters could vary from one person to another, and the following could be examined; genetic make-up, post-natal experiences, child-hood disorders and handling, development risk exposure and vulnerability, family mental-health problems and contagious family stress, generational family, national and societal troubles, problems to do with economic miseries and undignified living, value-less living, family and society bullies, poor self and life planning and management –including the environment in which we live, contempt of life and existence rights of others and above all, failure of leaders to identify and intervene to solve the stated problems.

Human problems are occurring and different levels –ranging from family to schools, to work, to leadership and institutional circles and the wider communities. Therefore, multi-faced problem-solving programmes and technologies need to be designed to reduce human and environmental impact and damage of the human afflictions, while instituting national or global precaution and 24 hour check systems to prevent occurrences and make prevention programmes major focal concern though hand in had with scaling down impact.

It would require a sort of multi-barrel gun or two-barrel to shoot either ways to control and prevent incidences to disasters while ensuring investment in research and information banks. In doing all these, a sense of humanism must be developed right from family levels through influential institutions and a must during policy formulations.

Reception
Affected persons need courtesy, to be shown love and care, and to be assured to safety or hope for the best. Polite questions could be used to enlist the gravity of troubles, and allow narration of encounters while ensuring all are released out to no molecule left.

Outline Programme Highlights
Being a participatory approach, it would be a patient’s right to know what the recovery programme would entail. There must be a systematic relay of recovery actions. It would help promote planning and management as well as collaborative relationship with patient and in patient.

Outline Troubles
On behalf of the patient, help to outline and note down troubles since it would require addressing systematically one at a time over a given period of time.

Purpose
Using polite questions guide the affected person to safe thinking and possibility of action. Let the person come out with an outline of life goals and plan of action. Only use same polite question to have patient think about what you think he or she could do.

Outline Possible Re-building Actions
Guided with helping questions to solutions and alternatives, let the person find steps out of troubling situations. Base the enabling questions on the outlined troubles. In them, get centered on the patient self of the past troubles, how he or she dealt with them, how he could have approached them and what would be required of now as in the future –looking at progressive living, confronting problems, negotiating and manouvering around obstacles and looking at alternatives, then patient self of healthy-living, relationships and career development remedy actions.

While at environmental level, would be the need to identify environmental toxins, dealing with them and preventing self-penetration. Also, to examine would be the patient’s spirituality extent and subsequent re-orientation, issues of family life, society and ambitions, but in a futuristic sense. Collaborative relationship of at least 30 minutes per day would be much benefiting.

Forming Values, New Character and Personality
These would be consistent with outcomes of the dangerous person and troubling experience, self-proclaimed strategic vision and implementable action plan of the near and far future. And helping form a lifestyle that flies all the way to life goals and a system of tireless search for answers whenever trouble ensued.

It would also involve making friends and coming up with hobbies or a kind of trusted team with which to share visions and special person to consult in case of extremes and confidential experiences. They could be written down and plastered on the wall or reflected upon every day in prayer and social interactions or in positive self-talk -both before and after new similar and bad incident.

Success at several new encounters in life would create a character that floats over challenges and trouble and a personality that slices and crashes through obstacles. It would a kind of personality that “superman” has that flies through concrete, fire and space.

But at this stage also we could look at goodness and reality living to avoid excesses the may be turn out to be a personality toxin to a future patient. The does and don’t would actually be a new guide and real self to health self relationships and future self as in social interactions.

Encourage Self-help Groups
Allow patient to interact with others in the same stage of counseling session or therapy administration. Helping them verbally re-define themselves and self-assert on new lifestyle. Allow one at go speaking among members and let others listen as one is speaking. This could help them build self-confidence, self-esteem and positive attitude to life and people. Guided by questions encourage willingness to express themselves freely in public or any other interpersonal interactions.

Meditating over Problems and Their Solution, and Self-definition
Meditation helps to increase concentration to allow flow of answers to troubling conditions or situation. It helps to find ways of by-passing fear and/or maneuvering through with problem to succeed. It requires quiet and non-distracting place and position to enable focussed problem examining and solution derivation.

It is an activity that would occur during rest time or bed-time, after work or over weekends –depending on the gravity of the problem. Time taken would range from 30 minutes to 2 hours accompanied by dietary checks and conscious. And at the end of it all, the person would have come up with a new self to promote or test in a social scenario.

Outlining Possible Action Plans for Mental Health Care and Self-Management
a) Constantly asking self and arising situation questions.
b) Self-clarification and/or seeking clarification.
c) Rejecting or ignoring what is un-purposeful, meaningless and mis-representing.
d) Searching and doing activities and hobbies which a satisfying.
e) Relaxing and deep breathing when fatigued and in fearful situation.
f) Have sufficient sleep of at least 8 hours.
g) Confront and argue out cases but with respect for others, show dis-satisfaction with a statement of unfairness. Let annoying people know that you are not happy with them or when angered by them.
h) Defend your good values and self-representations and know kind of person you are debating since there could be those not worthy debating with or even wasting time on. In that case take them the way they are and give-up on them or chose to ignore whatever, mis-representations they bring-up in future –as you focus time and attention on what means lot to you or what is most important since you could have noted how time wasting it would be dealing with some people. Make them not to matter any more in future while you keep a distance away from them.
i) Focus on activities that bring you success and happiness.
j) Look for and focus on what is good and real by sense, feeling and touch. The three elements must exist before responding to concluding on any incident.
k) Find trust-worthy people -with whom to constantly discuss emerging issues and those of conflict type
l) Ensure time for your self everyday after hectic time, a time of self-reflection, having refreshments, a time to plan and re-new values and plan actions for success, harmonious living and healthy living or hygiene aspects of you. It could also be a time to attend to hobbies and favorable time with friends.
m) Create distance and boundaries for toxic people around you. These show how much they can influence you or have you respond to their actions. There are those you just have to ignore or at best leave a high and/or diplomatic hand-shake.
n) Choosing freely what would work for you and leaving out what is useless and destructive or distractive.
o) Acting on problems as they arise to promote personal mental stability.
p) Having private consultant and consulting him or her upon extremes.
q) Understanding and making decisions basing on who you are
r) Reviewing social circles in ones meditation time. Some of the people may have changes their ways towards you to allow some degree of interaction.
s) Saying hi or hullo could be universal that must not be ignored even to your ardent enemy.
t) Having time for self-stimulation and at least four intervals of laughter in a day
u) Continue hoping for what you have not achieved. Hoping soon motivates you to develop solutions and action ways to success.
v) Having a duty to examine self before examining other. In many cases people are the same or have similar problems. You would find self-tolerance and for others along the way.
w) Focussed living: on cherished values and beliefs –that are reviewed during meditation time
x) Sharing vision with trusted others to help build self esteem and/or confidence in achieving what you aspire for.
y) Try to reason around most of the frequent troubling experiences that you encounter. Most of the answers could be got through simple reasoning.
z) Focusing on the good aspects of self and achievements made. This promotes self-trust, self-esteem and/or confidence.
aa) Re-visiting your spiritual status while mindful of excess that could result to through extremist religious practices rather than abundant positives obtainable from spirituality as a whole –untainted by man’s selfish interest for self-glorification.
bb) Identifying warning signs and seeking advice from knowledgeable, experienced and skilled professional.
cc) Loving and caring for yourself. This must be a constant or day to day reminder for your-self.

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If a signal device showed take-off to safety or to flourish sign, it would be wrong to object. Opportunism involves foregoing or disapproving one thing for something else, since only one of the two or a few of the many can be selected. In many cases, a force-pull to self would be greater than to others. The others’ category could only be thought of later and only if need arose. Longman dictionary of contemporary English, page 1156 defines an opportunist as someone, who uses every opportunity to gain power, money or unfair advantages. From the definition, only one person or a few of the many benefit from a project (s) they founded. On the other hand, perception of “unfairness” would tend to be by people, who never gained from a similar opportunity. For instance, after the 2001 general elections, Uganda could neither have two presidents nor two members of parliament per constituency.

The world of economics tells us about foregoing certain demands of goods and services, but never stipulates whether some people must die for others to live. A productive population, though, matters most for the economy to prosper. Statistics world too provides different ranges of events from highest to lowest and vice-versa overtime, which help policy makers to understand and predict possibilities of the future. The meaning here is that things cannot always be the same, but can be re-adjusted. Also, as if by nature, classifications develop as some people maneuver through their way to success, like it were justifying a common impression that people cannot have the same footing. But evolutionary science, wholesomely accepts loss of life as new generations form.

Traditions and cultures all over the world recognize social classification, where people from powerful families and of high social stature or race receive special treatment. This prompts some sections of society to turn round and fight back in the name of injustice, while others claim justice exists by inheritance or God’s will. However, the different backgrounds, environmental stressors and personality-dictated approaches or individual strength and weakness, and a combination or acting in isolation, would explain better much of what we are. A number of people, though, who struggle for dignified life regardless of the background, could be found. Barack Obama, the Unites States presidential candidate, who going against racial and color obstacles as his inspiration could be a good example. He uses “we can” “and because we can” slogan to elevate himself and followers forward. Can injustice be a motivation for self-advancement?

On the career front, people with leadership and entrepreneurship abilities tend to be driven by opportunism, as would for investors and corporatists, whose interests can be strongly above any other.  Convey (1990) reveals that both character ethic and personality ethic play a role in transformation of individuals.  As adopted values bring about a certain character of a person, personality, on one hand, promotes positive thinking and self-belief. In both, positive individual sense would be most important. Such transformations could potentially occur not only at individual level, but at group and organization level as well. Was injustice a reservation for the underachievers, and justice for the most successful or lucky ones?

In his book: seven habits of highly effective people, Convey stressed the developmental phases as; dependence, independence and interdependence that all people undergo to reach their potential, and be able to give back to communities. In all, there must be opportunities to constantly take care of. With increasingly limited resources, as population grows, difficulties like; attainment of higher education and accessibility to clean water, unemployment, stress on the environmental resources and communities would ensue. This time round everyone suffers regardless of the class, as developers and communities conflict over land and other economic amenities. 

Makerere University has not been an exception of what are being pressured to change. Public pressure, along with presence other competing universities, both local and international, could help revolutionarize the ancient institution into what its ancestors had dreamed of -as the Harvard University of Africa. Among other things, we could, for example, want to see flexible class-work schedules for graduate students since most of them have to work to sponsor their studies. Sadly also, its public relations department left the university at the mercy of even rumors and gossips –most of which seemingly exaggerated. A lot of visible achievements are ignored by the critics as if there is a deliberate move to fail public institutions in favor of the private sector. But before the year 2000, noticeably the department under Henry Mayega was most active. The then PRO kept the public university free from external shocks and preserved its good image as he constantly clarified issues from the public. It is, really, acting too brave to continuously face and freely get a public beating. In its fast renaissance, first on the plan menu could be the need for the public relations department to undergo mending.

Under extreme circumstances, whilst in resources’ conflict, social classes collapse and rebuilding begins –something that would explain 2001 Zimbabwe land bonanza and 1972 expulsion of Asians in Uganda . Actually, observers say Uganda would be at the same level of development as Malaysia and Indonesia had Idi Amin not expelled Asians. But military misadventures, ambitious experimentation of the AK47 and tribal rifts could not let Uganda take off. It is surprising to note that Zimbabwe land re-distribution only arrested a feeling of economic oppression rather than save the country from collapse. Fortunately or unfortunately, ZANU/PF exit could save the situation and allow re-building process assumptive that MDC’s Morgan will never get possessed by Mugabe’s ghost.

At best, to guarantee fairness, conflicting situations would call for a compromise regardless of their intensity as well as make it a culture (to compromise). In Kenya , it was extended to power-sharing between the opposition’s Raila Odinga and presidential-seat claimant, Mwai Kibaki. The bad situation in Kenya was managed before society would collapse for the situation to order rebuilding, but credit goes to diplomats, who helped bring the country back to its feet. Otherwise, a number of voices had predicted Kenya as destined to become 1994 Rwanda .

In his structure of scientific revolutions, Kuhn (1962) explained the concept of paradigm shift as “series of peaceful interludes punctuated intellectually violent revolutions.” In success of such revolutions, the opportunistic person’s characteristic of disapproving other things and people would be most visible if he or she was desperate to move to the next developmental stage -amidst conflicts. This would, perhaps, support a notion that there must be conflict for changes or development to take place. Conflicts of any form may never be avoided. Intellectual debates too cannot be underestimated, as face-off time in form of verbal “artilleries” and cross-firings, where the most dominant and “fit” dictates fate of “unfit”, could potentially transform people’s perception of problem areas. The implication could be that people must relentlessly fight battles and wars, both verbal and combat to realize their dreams, interests and natural rights. It seems the future could feature lots of civil strife, ceasefires and peace-talks.

Experience has, however, shown that it is exhausted belligerents, who give in to ceasefire and peace-talks. Still and always, negotiations would be the brightest way to go regardless of the war phase and its strong justification. Simply, there must be respect for fellow human beings and their right to exist. But good or bad life could potentially be determined by the nature of the dominant or victor ideology and beliefs, and whether they are accepted or resisted. This could require society to identify groups and individuals with self-defeating values and help dissolve them or institute negotiation and rehabilitation programmes for the perpetuators.  Kibwetere, a “spiritual” leader, who in the year 2000 led several followers to death, may not be the last man to have developed a dangerous belief and lifestyle, others could come-by. 

Misuse of religion is society’s growing problem. There could be a crack-down on it as the case with drugs abuse, fraud and robbery. Recent research on adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda has implicated some renowned born-again churches that ask their followers to abandon Anti-retro-viral Drugs (ARVs) for a spiritual remedy. Yet counteracting evidence showed that people continued to die after abandoning ARVs. This was tantamount to being accessory -to murder, and such churches could be brought to book! Rather, as a recommendation, a combination of spiritual-health living and medication (and positive living aspects) than barely spirituality was found helpful at building resilience or resistance against ill-condition as well as enabling people live “normal” lives.

Marxists believed that the oppressed people would at one time rise up massively against the oppressor, then a dangerous opportunist. They did not, however, indicate whether the reasons for the uprising were differences in levels development, historical backgrounds and endowments (natural or artificial) or persecution and deliberate discrimination. The revolutionary governments tended to ignore issues like community mobilization and participation -by the leadership towards economic development and of other forms after assuming power. They soon concentrated all resources on strengthening the state machinery. But history has shown that worshippers of Marxism are a kind of opportunists and up-coming capitalists or so in disguise, who want to take advantage of a majority opinion (dependence) to elevate them-selves to power (independence). Unfortunately with them, sooner or later they abandon their supporters as currently insignificant, and only enjoy benefits solely or with a few trusted fans. The fans could be the type, whose trustworthiness was so hard-tested that their resignation only exited the regime –something they (state) could not afford to wish or think about.

As a reward, the fans could have a privilege to bribe, engage in fraud, to rob, to commit “simple” murders, to assault, to recklessly kill, to deprive and suffocate citizens of their rights, to persecute, to de-personalize, to de-value, to perpetuate racial cleansing and to live without a constitution but led by leader’s mood. With these, of course, a new justification for a revolution could be well understood by the aggrieved. Multi-faceted development miseries would be a major motivation to rebel. Such mis-rulers must definitely be eroded by the uprising, according to Marxist thinking. It would, therefore, be important for a sincere regime or revolutionary to constantly seek the interests and wishes of the people, and protect them from repressive acts of its fans.

But for the sake of community development, none of the ideologies (socialism and capitalism) would be pursued in isolation. In fact, socialism alone would act as a vehicle by which the poor get organized -to liberate themselves from poverty and misrule. At one point, the socialist would emerge capitalist, with element of self-thinking or opportunism. Should Zimbabwe and the World trust MDC’s Morgan after being helped to get power? But a wiser socialist beneficiary would at an achievement stage give back to the community in sincerity. Many big firms try to play fairly with their consumers in appreciation for the goals reached. They, for example, do it through promotions, scholarships and donation activities.

And initial change, as would be expected, faces a lot of opposition -regardless of the value it carries. Even Jesus Christ, was stormily opposed in spite of the good news he presented. It is after he was harassed, killed and later defied death that Christians all over the world began to belief him as the truth. Whether the land reforms are good for Uganda or the National Resistance Movement/Organization (NRM/O) will fail and only celebrated later, is another issue. We are simply in the world of sacrifices that are renewed or changed when they no longer apply. We only have to respect and listen to voices when uncertainty roars.

The Disgruntled

The unsuspecting, seemingly docile and the currently disgruntled would fall in this category. The unsuspicious and docile could have chances of joining those in the struggle for social justice -which looks normal rather than an insult. Struggling itself, is a choice and process that calls for belief and determinations to re-discover one’s desired self, knowledge and continued attachment to treasured belief and value system –with which  life is sustained.

The dangerously arousing problem would be if there is presence of a deliberate and systematic underlying policy to deprive, to frustrate, to close all openings to prosperity, to de-populate, to de-value, and to de-face. What a danger! In the face of such, effort must be focused on struggling until the system is overturned and human dignity realized while people, who deliberated chose to suffer get identified and placed under custody, not in Luzira, but at a mental health facility for help.

Election Rigging

Surely, for those who have contested for leadership positions through general elections could testify that preparing for it has no room for anything like defeat. The mentality ever is; “I will win” or “we shall win.” This becomes the driving force to the very end of campaigns, where a new and strange vocabulary like losing could, probably, be met. It is never easy to accept it when it comes. Losing, to them, never makes sense and meaning. No wonder, they are called presidential hopefuls, not hope-fools. Being hopeful is all they are made of and carry it to the end. Some even get heart attacks and die! For the doubting Thomases, they withdraw, just participate or never stand at all. Candidates only feel sensations of power-seat as if hallucinating. If a one morning, results showed the contrary, we could hear options as going to Luweero triangle for a protracted war. So what is this “thing” called election rigging? Does it, like PRA, exist or just a little mental problem? And what should members of the opposition expect if they only campaign on the eve of Election Day? At large there must be a problem that century’s ancestors of democracy failed to address or did not see.

But the general elections in Kenya were the most dramatic that would cause even the un-born baby to “kick the walls of the womb” in agitation. It was a kind of robbery in broad day light, given the timing of announcing winner and inauguration. It carried braver faces to cheat that way. At least, elsewhere, election commission chairmen find all means to institute a good tally system whether voters are felled across countries or ghost voters invoked to vote, and figures clearly stated with sweeping confidence. In Kenya , they did not have such experience. The Electoral Commission of Kenya Chairman was another actor. He showed fraud symptoms when he could not specify whether the “outcomes” were consistent with the ballot papers under his custody (refer to: Butagira and Othieno: January 3rd 2008, Daily Monitor page1). But, thanks to the steps taken to make peace and form a government of national unity so that the country comes first, and power fights second. Kenyans need congratulations over this.

Overall, in order to make sense where there is nonsense of opportunism, the disgruntled and election rigging, leadership must help organize its citizens to develop without regional, political, ancestry and cultural bias. In the same respect, personally and socially dignifying values and interests must be respected and divergent views tolerated.

Attempts, also, must be made to ensure that resources of the country benefit all its people, and peace and stability preserved through negotiating and revisiting social contracts with the recommended democratic ethics -to transform their lives, while a culture of talking peace is carried on to the future generations. Efforts too need to be concentrated on promotion of non-violence strategies of mass-boycott, mass demonstrations and mass denunciation instead of armed struggle until human and environmental values are put at the center of development. Having acted that way, opportunism, the disgruntled and election rigging would cease being no sense issues.

Jacob Waiswa
The writer is a situation health analyst
waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk
www.situationhealthanalyst.blogspot.com

There are three years left to hold another presidential election in Uganda , a time that calls for serious groundwork on the part of political parties. With no parties leaving offices for mass sensitization and to seek electorate approval, their existence and purpose would cease to mean anything positive to Ugandans. And as it can be the case, it would leave incumbent, the National Resistance Movement Party/Organisation (NRM/O), as the only entity to prove itself worthwhile to Ugandans.

Early preparation is something that the opposition political parties seem not to take care of. Instead, they go to party offices to take tea and ground nuts. In addition to its incumbent advantage, the NRM/O went ahead to announce the commencement of its 2011 campaigns to be June this Year (Muyita and Wanyama: 14^th January, 2008), which is a pretty advanced step taken and an advantage added to incumbency.

A lot of political-party works have been limited more to rumor-mongering, press-conferences and office work than active mass mobilization or going down to the grass roots and engage people, more as a basis to measure performance than to fantasize.

In Makerere University , the recently concluded guild presidential elections were a true reflection of politics at national level, as some candidates represented national political parties. Situations as these would be the best for a political party to judge its strength. Perhaps the lagging factor is funding problem, which individual party members would still tackle through strategic planning in unison -with closely related political parties.

But, NRM/O government was fast in bid to disable political parties, first, by carefully introducing politics of marginalization across public institutions –where recruitment would be on the basis of NRM/O cadre ship, defacing old political parties and now are de-tribalising Baganda to become Ja-luos using history facts. The present economic structures too do not favor individual input towards development of partisan politics as opposition members continue languish in poverty.

All these seem to have worked so well for NRM/O that they can now think of 4^th, 5^th to 20^th elected term in office, as critics and potential distracters very soon give in after just moments of bimeeza –debating activity or sleep-off and forget by next general elections. This is what continuously makes the movement government really lucky. As for de-tribalisation, if it justified land reforms in favor of NRM/O, a lot of problems would safely by-passed as direct confrontation with Buganda –something that would have resurrected the 1966 Lubiri incident. This is, perhaps, what makes President Museveni one of the most intelligent Uganda has had. But de-tribalisation must first undergo testing to further prove his intelligence again and again. Why not if it can be interesting to political observers and analysts?

And it is at this level; of land conflicts or federal one that perhaps, makes Obote’s legacy to live on in the hearts of many –including President Museveni since he is facing the same pressure as Obote did and could be tempted to respond the same way if de-tribalisation by history invocation fails. The land issue is like a stormy river that would take superior powers to help NRM/O swim through to safety.

Nevertheless for political party development -with growing financial problems and political misery or disgruntled nature as vocalised by NRM/O, opposition political parties would improvise by making political alliances both locally and globally -for technical and financial assistance. It is believable that many organizations world over would be willing to support democracy and human rights when approached.

Unfortunately, selfish interests and lack of common nationalistic agenda still afflicts Uganda as much as Africa , in general. As a result, democracy and human rights issues have become more of what can be talked during tea-time, at Malwa (drinking joints) and at-radio free airtime chats than the real need to practice them.

Still, in Makerere University guild election contest, a similar case would be found where opposition candidates chose to stand on the basis of party inclination and self calling even if the strategy would fail. For example, a five-fold of candidates that stood against each other were from the north, the other section were Baganda. This was nothing else but wastage of time and the little money they had over Rutaro and the western region front. But most noting of all, those from the west were solidly together.

Even then, the “products” presented by opposition political parties could not easily “sale” due to the seeming fact that in Makerere University, one must have a combination of; lots of money, ability to movingly speak well, presidential outlook, handsomeness for the sake  ladies’ section, and possession of an international character –since so many students fall in that category.

Without such indicators, opposition political parties seemed not to mean anything to Makerere University students, at large. In that case, Rutaro Robert was the “most qualifying” right before the campaigning exercise. This made NRM victory in Makerere University unique that could not be taken wholesomely.

However, time will come when money factor would cease to influence Ugandan elections, when Ugandans then use miseries encountered and economic benefits gained to vote for either change or no change. Unfortunately to that regard, so many no longer trust the power of the vote. Voting and democratic processes seem to have lost meaning both; in the eyes of power holders and power makers (voters). The scenario could at certain time promote mal-governance unless hope -for free and fair results is aroused and sustained.

At local front, parties with inadequate resources in terms of electorate support and funding could seek to combine efforts with a more popular opposition party, so long as the main objective is similar. However, it is something that hardcore political party members would vehemently disagree to and result into total mess in already disorganized political opposition groups. Otherwise, split-ups in fight for votes would only and constantly give the incumbent a winning advantage, which require selfish-less strategic planning among opposition political parties while considering resource base, popularity and marketability in terms of “product” (candidate) presented as remedy.

Much as historical facts and nostalgia are good, these would act only as motivation while focusing on the current needs to transform a particular political party. The opposition political parties, first, need to be mindful of internal democracy right from organization of primaries (grassroots) elections before rushing to compete for national responsibility.

Of the political parties struggling to cope with the post-Museveni survival, is the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC). In addition to the general problems faced by the opposition political parties in Uganda -towards democratization, UPC has continuously reacted by hiding in the past and glorious years for consolation away from activity pressure. This is ostrich-like behavioral response in face of danger to survive. Has UPC run out of ideas?

Yet, history and achievement would only act as motivation to justify old-party’s coming to power again through mass-awareness and recruitment. If the older parties, of which the NRM/O now belongs, continue to ride on the past; what people have read and experienced, and what Ugandans are used to, newer parties would be set to flourish on their support. It would not, therefore, be surprising if a political party of yesterday (as People’s Progressive Party (PPP) overtook the history-drown ones.

Milton Obote, as Museveni made memorable trends in the history of Uganda that still hold true to many sincere Ugandans. They achieved a lot for themselves and for Uganda .

Unfortunately, the more we ride on their back, the more we would stop writing any history for the new generations to come. There must be a door-knocking generation to take over as Obama is trying to do in the United States . We must not only look in the past for today’s answers, as either could have differently challenging situations.

Still to note, living a life of the old and the dead would only stall social progress. Jesus Christ would be an exception since he died resurrected and still lives as will forever. With him, we could continue to follow but not for simple men as compared to him. Otherwise, with the nature continuous evolving as society revolves, older ideas would be phased away while more powerful and fresh ideas force their way to center stage in support of natural processes that respect only newer generations of people and of new ideas.

As a believer in the dynamic nature of society, a living Ugandan in the early and late 1990s could only be reminded by the Rwanyarare group impact on the politics of Uganda in the post-Museveni era. UPC could be remembered as a political party that took-on roles required of an opposition force, addressed political problems as political enslavement by NRM/A, stage-managed demostrations and represented Ugandans at the time when ordinary Ugandans would not easily criticize government –a role the late Dr. Milton Obote demeaned and made sure he dismissed the group before death.

So, as others celebrate certain revolutionary days, UPC never does or even try to build on the post-museveni Rwanyarare impact. Yet people had come out to associate themselves again with UPC, older parties like CP and DP soon came to the fore and began to speak –a foundation upon which several new parties would be proud of. But do they know that?

Just last year UPC’s Othieno said Obote’s legacy still lives on, not UPC’s achievements after Obote time as President of Uganda (Daily Monitor: 11^th January, 2007). Could have Obote died with UPC as Museveni may with NRM/O? What a challenge for the new generation in both parties! However, NRM/O, unlike UPC never ignores potential of the youth and actively lets them in, though only at critical moments as national elections.

UPCs almost 99% elderly fans often frustrated the youth and pro-change ideas, internally. Instead, they (youth) were often branded NRM/O and possible spies until, perhaps, a number of the same 99% fell guilty when they crossed to the NRM/O side. They could have seen the party as a drowning ship where to individually survive; those riding in it had to jump onto a passing-by and speeding small boat.  

As if to reinforce my argument further, Obote, who died a UPC president as he wished, left the party at the level of a terminally ill person. Instead of active holding of consultative workshops, conferences and meetings and/or seek funding for such activities, all the time now has been put at praising and worshiping the fallen party president –and as if forgetting that UPC actually needed the living, not the dead and anything else in the interest of Ugandans as a base for its rebirth and sustainability.

Perhaps, what was left of the fallen UPC president was asking family to do a pharaoh style of burying him with the party, and maybe, we would be having another party announced for the living -with a new name, vision and structure soon after burial.  Could PPP be one?

With such a trend, those who jumped from a drowning ship to a fast moving small boat could be blamed less as should those who went private rather than participate in the seemingly drama-play politics of the UPC. The NRM/O still shows interestingly natural survival tactics where instead of jumping onto a small passing boat for safety, members form newer groups but parented by the same old party (NRM/O).

The old parties as UPC, therefore, need to modify themselves with changing times and make timely adjustments in synchrony with steps taken by their counter-parts, the NRM/O party. They may need not to just critise throughout the day, but also, be keen to note down a few things that can be learnt from NRM/O. A lot of meetings and consultative workshops must be organized countrywide to review progress and adopt new next-days’ actions rather than plans. Above all, older parties must enthrone willing youths to take over from them, as they are more energetic, visionary and active in modern day politics while the elderly take on the advisory and story-telling role.

Libya’s Gadaffi continues to play influential roles in the politics of Uganda . Unfortunately or fortunately, they mean nothing positive to political party development in Uganda . He did it very well with Iddi Amin and succeeded, even at helping change many Ugandans to Islam while those who failed found life difficult -as it only propagated religious persecution. Unfortunately, his old friend is out and somehow he wants to have a new one, still, in Uganda with whom to share similar ideas as faith and no revolutionary guard change as if a revolution itself does not rotate around change. Couldn’t this comply with the old saying, “change now: if you do not, change will change you?”

One aspect the revolutionary master missed out in his advice to Ugandan leadership was to first look out at the social structural differences and history as linked to political life destinies of Libya and Uganda .  For example, while in Libyans are mostly homogenous and sharing resources amicably, in Uganda it is very far from the same. And if the western world is unfair to Africa as Mr. Gadaffi asserted such that their (western) names should be abandoned in favor of African names as his own (Gadaffi) whilst naming historical sites, was he too suggesting that neo-colonialism by Africans against other Africans is better than that by western countries?

Jacob Waiswa,

Situation Health Analyst,

waiswajacpbp@yaho.co.uk

www.situationhealthanalysis.blogspot.com

Regarding angry-some rebuts of Betty Kamya’s seemingly terror article, responses made were a result of baseless fears and lack of helping touch. As a contribution towards the fracas I would say, an individual opinion cannot be interpreted as generally justifiable and applicable in the right and social-wellness sense. What would be wrong with people saying what the have to say and what they think?

Let people express all they can. It would be their view. If touched, anyway then, they should go right way to express themselves as have those caught in statements of terror. It is healthy scenarios to respect and consider rather than generate fuss and conflicts. If that was the case, who would be in charge of masterminding peace and social harmony noting that anyone could be a victim?

And how would man sustain himself and other members of the eco-system if he or she were to fail first in the management role? One aspect we must honor and continuously tolerate are differences in human beings as well as natural bio-diversities –that help to sustain humanity. These are what would make the world interesting -with the fact being that we can naturally, spiritually, and culturally different.

And strangeness of what surrounds us, as a motivation to think and act otherwise or to better status quo. Others could therefore, potentially help us come up with better living standards and conditions to get furthered into the predictably better future.

But in all, always the right appeals overtake and overpower the wrongs. But we should never deny a chance for both happening and people expressing them-selves out as much as they can. Betty is not different. It could have been political depression through or frustrations and leading to such things as political “vomits” from her. Well such “vomits” could so wild that they might cause fearful reactions.

But if the reactions in turn tend towards positive change or appeal, the “vomits” too would be deactivated and the victim helped to recover and be as good as those for good, peaceful co-existence and harmony. Would it be bad for one to vomit? I would say a big NO because It could nothing else but healthy, and something that would be encouraged.  

And in any case, Betty could have represented herself (due to personal and past emotional injury as well as recently occurred misfits), her immediate intimates and their grievances rather than FDC-political party, me and /or anybody. Instead it her reactions would be taken as symptoms of the sick that she needed help.

If similar vomits were used against her, it would only worsen individual health as if helping to destroy her. Unfortunately, these are a kind of statements that came from a high figure in the name of Betty. So under such circumstances, she would be expected to have advisors to help guide her in decision making.

And to understand her she had to be separated from her social position and looked at as an individual as well as the good and bad of her statements from the general right expectations. These needed to be critically examined.

All in all, the views seen on Ugandans at heart Google-groups forum members were not appalling as some members think. In future member would need to nurture care and help individuals like Betty since like any human being, she could have had weaknesses or emotional problems that drove past her.

Waiswa Jacob, Community Psychologist
waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk
www.situationhealthanalysis.blogspot.com

Arsenal FC loss at Old trafford was a belated valentine gift to Manchester United. A lot had been spoken during pre-match press conferences that alone, just by words, could have won the cup game.

But from the lineup, right before the game, anyone would see a foregone conclusion that Arsenal FC has prepared a victory gift to Manchester United. The team presented, its player positioning, player choice, by player-game standard would easily lose to Manchester United, even Kean’s Sunderland would be grateful to such a lineup. It was merely a fulfilment of fixture requirement of just to play regardless of the outcomes of the game.

The Club chose to ignore the actual problem of its Old trafford lineup, instead rushed to lament about the pitch conditions and the fact that they could not regret about the loss. Perhaps, as the reason, players’ image must be protected by the management.

But if the two teams had been subjected to similar conditions, then, such would not be an excuse. What everybody must accept is that it was a thorough beating by Manchester United, as good as the Spurs one. Yet also, if Arsenal FC had won, it would all be praises for the team and nothing else.

From the Spurs game lessons seem not to have been learnt. Arsenal FC continues to play certain players just to appease them to silence the talkative ones from threatening to leave the Club. Others continue to be played experimentally to improve their game, even in critically competitive games.  

Hoyte, for example, is a player who would boast for his flexibility but one striking aspect of him is that he plays best in his unnatural position (left-back and minus attempts for long-ball crossing) than he could on the right-back.

For Toure, his injury in African Cup of Nations affected his form. In fact, in the game with Egypt, he was constantly a like Boumsong, a former Newcastle player –meaning that his game was embarrassing to watch, especially for us, who are fans of Arsenal FC. With such Senderos could be ahead of him for any serious game.

Gallas, too, got caught off his usual game. What a surprise. Perhaps, he could have been affected by team “potholes” and that he could not suffer from 65% of the burden to nurse errors and blunders from some of his tea-mates.  

It would have been thought that those on the bench could not have come on to player in such a mess, given their usual decent displays. These include; Ade, Flamini and of recent, Senderos.

Much as it would have been appreciated that that Club had suffered from serious injuries on key players, the available team could have been utilised to contain Manchester United, to the greatest extent. With the players Arsenal presented, Reading FC would b its equivalent but it would not be beaten as embarrassingly as was Arsenal FC.

Given the same players Arsenal FC would still, in future, find it self with as those who played at Old trafford, 1) Hoyte would go to the left and Traore out or rather would act as left-winger. 2) Kerea Gilbert would step in as best right-back, if not Eboue. And, 3) Hleb would be right-winger. With consistency in position playing of a player over time, believably, such arrangement would have prevented the weekend embarrassment or at least reducing it to 1:0 in favor of Manchester United or 1:1 for both.

Jacob Waiswa,

Situation Health Analyst

Over one thousand people (1,000) have died due to Kenya violence, and primarily from extreme manifestation of economic and political greed. A little could have been known about Kenya like; long experience of economic and political corruption, sharp inequalities in resource distribution as well as in terms of income per capita, ungentle character, and above all; unfriendliness to foreigners.

Just recently, (in the Daily Monitor: 9^th February, 2008), Ugandans were reportedly sodomised by rioting Kenyans. But, even those, who have lived in Kenya for the last twenty or more years, could reveal about roughness of most Kenyans. But, thanks to its geographical location, Kenya’s economy continued to survive shocks of greed.

There seems to have been a transition from economic greed and marginalization to a political element by specific tribal governments against other tribes -that are not in power. Kenyan political representatives, over time, have by far given no meaning to democracy. Instead, they have used democracy purely as a means for massive acquisition of wealth rather than genuine representation of electorate interests and wishes. Politics there has meant a search for treasure –with the equation of; politics equals (=) wealth. Why would anybody get surprised watching aging Kibaki glue himself hard onto power?

Most Kenyans could have thought Kibaki clique had “eaten” enough” and that it was a chance for someone else or another lot. It is such a situation that could have eventually pushed Kenyans into violence. Rigging of elections only opened the floodgates. Any proposals for peace would, therefore, not only mean to have a re-run of elections, as the most important solution, but be coupled with serious pledges for economic, moral and social structural reforms.

The media lowly took president of Rwanda’s Idea of a military enforcement of peace yet sounded vital, as well. Military coup against Kibaki first, would perhaps, have been necessary for overall recovery of Kenya from its sorry state –after which the same military could announce and organize elections. Maybe the Military did not think about it or it was just too late.

 
And perhaps, like it was the case with ECK chairman, Kibaki could have promised heaven and earth to the military bosses to heed. However, Kibaki and his team continue to show signs of no care and insensitivity about on-going events in Kenya. All they are up to is to work out anything that could, by all means, keep them in power. Perhaps, they lack christianness in them. If they did, they would have resigned and asked for national forgiveness.
 

In the same paper Daily Monitor, a “government” spokesman, Dr. Matua was reported by the media saying there would be no power sharing while other reports showed that they are not willing to go for a re-run of elections. A similar statement from Mr. Kofi Annan was heard –forgetting that during his UN days he was more of an observer and talker than an action-taker.

Wasn’t he a UN secretary during the whole scenes (from the beginning to the end) of the Rwanda genocide? His no re-run (of elections) firm-stand, would not be a surprise. And those cushioned by Annan’s statement as Kibaki and his friends, their selfish interests allow them no chance to feel the violence impact -so as to be motivated to seek any means that would lead to a peaceful settlement.

The political power-generated warmth, perhaps, puts them at a more comfort zone than affected refugees and the hurt. It is, in short, a serious manifestation of insensitivity towards fellow countrymen. Why would this not justify further violence and biting of teeth needing to eat up the likes of Matua?

It would, then, be the only problem with earlier proposed military action by president Kagame, remembering that it has, too, contributed deaths by means of shooting live bullets at unarmed protestors. These are soldiers only willing to keep anybody in power upon any first impression from a firstly organized swearing ceremony.

A mere rush to a national media house to make a formal announcement about new “bull in the kraal”, the army would only salute. And they would not think or reason otherwise apart from saluting to the traditional “order” rule, decrees and regime statements and wishes. No wonder, in the history of coups, the first political or rebel representative to reach government media house and announce the emergence of a new government, as Walter Ochola once did, would soon be successful in that endeavor.

Even if Kibaki fell out anyhow, they are the kind of army that could consider anyone masquerading as president to be so. The Kenyan divide cannot, therefore, guarantee a stable army for a military takeover in the interest of national peace and stability. Soon the military could be affected reciprocally by what would be happening in the political and civil sectors.

And with Kibaki, the said commander in chief, the army could find itself in dubious business with his government, as well. Assassination of renowned politicians would, then, not be met by surprise. Otherwise, it would be rather unprofessional act shooting at unarmed civilians. It is cowardly from whoever ordered such shootings. What would result if the offended, too, found their way to guns and bullets? But would violence for violence lead to peace and stability again?

If a country were marred by violence, same amount of violence in return would not be appealing to any peace lover. This could explain why American war policy has changed over years to be integrated with diplomacy, one at a time or both at ago. It would be, perhaps, increasing deaths of innocent people to call for peace-by-force mechanism. But, in the end, both approaches would be needed. After all, an end to reckless killings would be the main objective.

However, history has showed us that non-violence has been the most successful means of conflict resolution and grievance settlement; both from within an individual, and from injustices inflicted onto individuals and/or society. At individual level, a person could choose creative means of satisfying himself or herself everyday, which would mean hobbies, transformable into generally beneficial activities -to bring overall happiness to the individual. It would also call for individual assertion of his or her rights through action to realize justice rather than injustice.

This means justice cannot at certain degrees be begged or even negotiated. Justice, in general, could be seen as natural or godly that must always find its place regardless. Such human rights-expressed actions may be from individual to group and later on, a social action, which would act as convoys to achievement of social justice and of marginalized groups.

There are, however, four important things in its achievement (justice); 1) being brave for self-help and self-justice; 2) carrying out real actions for self-help, for self-liberation, and for the right conscience, 3) resilient and/or perseverance until total demise of oppression and injustice and; 4) spreading such actions to all sectors that contribute to injustice.

It would be a situation, where actions speak clearer and make more sense than words.  It would be a matter of one person rising to the occasion and bringing in a few friends, who in turn, would together move for social activism whilst reserving optimism towards realization of justice, respect for values, emancipation of the marginalized, equality in resource distribution and social progress. This, perhaps, could be an answer to how true a Kenyan problem needs a Kenyan person’s answer.

Ghandi and Martin Luther non-violence actions for social justice offer good sources of inspirations. Their strategy was never a betrayal, but a real success later after and benefits are there for all mankind to see. Like Jesus Christ, they were killed for the good of the masses they struggled for while the fruits of their deaths continue to be enjoyed and their strategy, still, is the most popular and successful.

Those who have read or watched Ghandi and Martin literature or videos may have learned from the following; refusal to acknowledge unjust gestures and practices as well as systems, non-cooperation, peaceful demonstrations, sit-downs, denunciation and defiance, making oneself first and at the front to be at par with one’s moral conscience, which is cased by preaching, speeches, and writings and videos about oppressed concerns. The most interesting in such aspects is that they would be most biting to the oppressor yet no guns or bullets get used against him or her (oppressor). It would not be very long when fulfillments first in the individual and then, to those around him, soon emerge.

This, therefore, would be a lesson for the oppressed and marginalized in Kenya and elsewhere, where injustice is the rule, principle, convention and order for the oppressor’s convenience. Victims of such must rise to be counted, must rise and struggle for the freedoms of generations to come and must break unjust rules, conventions and orders for self-liberation such that in turn, friends and families are liberated, and for social, political and economic liberation in a long run. And to achieve these, non-violence approach would be most suitable alternative, as it would help solve the equation of aggressive confrontation leading to deaths as unworthy now, where instead, an intelligent alternative and more sensible actions are used to unconsciously demoralize and demobilize even the armed.

Jacob Waiswa, waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk

The writer is a Situation Health Analyst and Orientator in the Humanist Movement with interest in Human Behavior. 
 
 

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By

Jacob Waiswa, waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk,
+256-77-4-336277

By

Waiswa Jacob

Makerere University Institute of Psychology (MUIP) and
the Integrated Mental Health Services/Solutions (IMHS-UG)
P.O.

-Uganda
Telephone: +256-77-4-336277
waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk

Awarding Body: Uganda National Council for Science and Technology
P.O. Box 6884, Kampala
uncst@starcom.co.ug

ÓDECEMBER, 2007

Executive Summary

The background of all healthy sectors is that of medicines and their application with no regard to preparing the patient through the entire drug or medicine taking-process as well as and lifting their hopes and spirits through counseling. Resilience concept could be a learned one concretized by; social support, environmental and ecological health. But, families, in child upbringing may indirectly or directly promote or devalue resilience during child rearing. Unlike, protective families, authoritative, authoritarian families may tend to harden off children during their growth and development and therefore, contribute to resilience.  The bases of resilience however, are positive living and spirituality which too ought not to be underestimated. This could go as far as conditioning child to find his or her way through growth difficulties, education hardships as well as in times of sickness –as living with HIV/AIDS. Resilience could also be taken as a choice through learning -with determination, self-reassurance, self-belief, self-trust, mental stamina and responsibility over whatever is learnt for healthy living. It could call for continued and relentless anticipating for their positive life goals, pursue them and realize their fulfillment. At schools and tertiary institutions resilience as a cross-cutting course unit would be integrated in the curricular as key ingredient in psychological studies with psychology as a major in all disciplines. This, for instance, would help individuals find struggling in life as an obligation rather than a punishment. Once that is done, it would as well go a long way to building immune systems for quick recoveries; refresh the body for new daily tasks, for healthy living and longer life than it would have been without an integrated system of positive living, resilience and spirituality in disease or lifestyle management and control. It would, therefore, require positive living, spirituality and resilience being closely applied alongside physician diagnosis and prescriptions.

A multi-disciplinary team of; psychologists, medical persons, drug manufacturers, caretakers, social support groups (NGOs) donor support, government aid and grass root support could play combined role in realizing success of positive living, spirituality and resilience in the management of HIV/AIDS as well as other life challenges for human development, survival and security. In doing so it would not only attempt to eliminate the stigma and increase patient’s lifespan but also help unite communities against the common enemy HIV/AIDS and other human insecurities. It would further promote interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches in public health management and thus; provide employment to multiplicity of professionals while at the same time helping provide a wide range of health and social services supportive to the well being of the youths living with HIV/AIDS and the vulnerable groups. In its interventional programmes, and as building blocks, the project would have interests and undertakings in; health living, spirituality (faiths, beliefs or religious sects), mental and general healthy –spreading into socio-cultural, socio-environmental, ecological, socio-economical, and socio-political spheres for general well being and well functioning of the communities in their day-to-day lives. Stronger attention would best be placed on inter-institutional or inter-organizational net-working aimed at combining forces to realize the programme goal. Some of the community activities would be, carrying out annual national-wide conferences on conflict resolution, international relations and nurturance of peace as gateways to human and ecological security, among other things. Such conferences and lectures could formulate adoptable guides, legislative or legal structural designs and policies for local and international managers or leaders to use in their decision-making process. The project membership and affiliation would be unlimited (consisting of its staff, hired experts, researchers, volunteers, interns, guest speakers, collaborating institutions, etc) -since by nature since we all need one another in the struggle for human and ecological rights as well as survival ones, while at the same time; entitled to them (rights).

Justifications

HIV/AIDS like any to other devastating life pressures do terribly torment from that time of announcement of news of positive stature to its full-blown state. Even after the shocking revelation of positive stature, the client could end-up verbally and cognitively “resigning” from life, which adversely affects the physical being at the face of death. Deteriorating mental states would with time make the individual vulnerable to other infections like; tuberculosis, cancer, typhoid, meningitis etc -since the immune system could have been suppressed mainly due to psychological resignation or mental health-related problems. It is at this stage accompanied by failure to manage shock, depression and anxieties that a patient surely begins to wait for death unless earliest psychological interventions are carried out to lift his or her spirit and resilience to live on. However, in present day medical faculties and services, even where counseling services are carried out, no emphasis is put on the helping the patient develop resilient power and spirituality or to activate the inner powers and resources to healthy life. There is a strong emphasis by health ministries on pharmaceutical products for disease remedy –supported by their big financial base to hold persuasive adverts, while ignoring ethical examination of other health living determinants like; positive living, spirituality and resilience. Consequently, it would be a win-lose battle in favor of pharmaceuticals while patients continue to die even after spending off all their savings to buying drugs. In other words, there is no helping relationship between pharmaceuticals and the diseased or affected communities. In fact, the kind of relationship is unfair since drug dealers continue to amass wealth yet the health services offered are narrow and client illnesses recurrent.

And, there is an increasing emergence of qualified psychologists, related mental health professionals, social workers and para-professionals with a social impact, who are neither identified nor utilized, amidst social and economic stressors that go as far as; relationship breakdown or family breakdown, clinical illness, decreased productivity at work, confliction mentalities and wars etc -in everyday lives. Yet, if the following were incorporated; 1) the spiritual positive interpretations: noting that; in some societies beliefs send people into human killings and sacrifice for wealth and eternity), 2) socio-economic, socio-culture stress: noting that; through positive cultural practices a community could be organized in a healthy way, 3) socio-political distress and disregard for nature conservation practices, for sustainable development and human and ecological health -where, underutilization of existing human and ecological resources amidst widespread and accumulating load of acute challenges as; illnesses, ignorance and docility, self-destroying lifestyles and practices (as rebellions and/or civil strive) would prevail. Also, regarding the aspect of political distress; the little resources that are developed, end up in the hands of few greedy leaders, who selfishly amass public funds to themselves at the expense of the very sick and poor -whilst noting that such creates aggravated mental health problems, loss spiritual attachments, moral degeneration, conflicts, hopelessness, devaluation of life and nature -through aggressions to destroy ecology and humanity on the part of the led. It is such cumulative human and ecological insecurities that IMHS-UG wishes to put into context in its goal and objectives. In using a multi-systemic approach, IMHS-UG describes the approach as in the case of an obese patient, whose treatment approach may be –medicinal or medical case, behavioral or psychological and nutritional, all of which manned solely by specialized individuals (working one long after the other) could not give adequate services to the client. Rather it would be a combination of such individuals working as a team who could be most effective. There fore, numerous sub-systems working together would be the best way to go -towards finding solutions to multiple human problems. Such micro-set approaches need to be amplified across each other for a multi-faced action for: health-living and health-development, human/ecological survival and security as well as positive socio-economic and socio-political development relevant to social and economic transformations of the masses. Achieving this would call for a multi-institutional frame-work in realizing its goal, aims and objectives.

2. B. Mission:  To attain health-living for humanity, human dignity and development through guided utilization of the eco-system resources in a sustainable manner
 
2. C. Vision:    To pool together the numerous elements of the eco-system working together  for the common good, and operating under a single unit so that every member is able to benefit from the union of spirituality, positive living and resilience –in socio-cultural and socio-political ethics, as well as in socio-economics and ecological aspects
             
2. D. Approach:  Multi-systemic, multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional and multi-faced ideals interacting together for a   common good

2. E.  Goal:      To form ecological structures and designs for human survival, development, well-functioning and well-being in union and interactive, understanding with ecological elements and sustainable utilization of ecological utilities for human and ecological justice that nurture positive living, spirituality and resilience

2. F.   Specific Objectives:      i)    To form holistic development, technical and      infrastructure systems
                                      ii)   To promote development-evaluative systems, holistically
                                      iii)  To build self-sustaining development work and health systems
                                      iv)  To develop holistic health based of spirituality principles and its development based on information delivery and management

2.  G.   Activities:                   i)      Design technical and infrastructure systems for  human and ecological health

                                             ii)      Ecological and development systems’ research, information relay and implementations

                                 iii)     Securities and assets investments and their management links

                                    iv)     Institution and maintenance of data management systems 

2. H.   Funding Sources:     i)      Subscriptions fees and individual contributions

                                           ii)     Grants and Fundraisings

                                           iii)    IMHS-UG assets and Loans

2. I.    Monitoring and Evaluation:    

                                 i)      Joint Supervisions to constitute IMHS representatives to allied organisations as well as have annual evaluation would be done (during which an assembly would be called to receive annual reports and make propositions) with reports dispatched to stake-holders and IMHS library.

2. J. Fears and Strength:  i)      There are no significant fears projected, while strength lies in abundant human resource power

2. K.    Values:             i) Team-work, realism, persisting focused and responsibility

3. A. Figure 1: Standard IMHS-UG Organization Chart

3. B. Figure 2: A Projected Three Year Work Plan

Conclusion

In conclusion, IMHS-UG as a multi-stake organization would pool together people from diverse professions to come and work as a unit for the common good and dignified living. Such multi-disciplinary outlooks and multi-dimensional ideals would be given a chance to interact by way of complimenting one another. IMHS-UG and other sister organizations would work together to achieve the goal of human and ecological security: by going as far as exploring the socio-cultural, social-economic, socio-political, spirituality and ecological perspectives and their effects on human physiology, cognitive, emotional and  behavioral aspects and place checks for harmony and health living.

Like Clichy, whose emergence calmed down fires after the departure of Ashley Cole, Alex Song would too make Diarra’s case would soon sound meaningless at all fronts other than duplicating players with similar attributes.

During Cameroon win against Zambia in African Cup of Nations, Songs play was as similar as Diarra’s. Seeing this was enough to say that like Ashley, Diarra’s departure would do no harm to the Club.

Looking at the Newcastle game, playing together in the next 3-6 games would make Arsenal team more lethal and resilient to pressure, yet registering results. But greater surprises were caused by Clichy , Adebayor, Senderos and ever impressive Hleb.

The game predicted a lot for them. Senderos only needed several games to regain his renown and record form. His improvement will force more patience with Toure return.

Clichy was another strange fellow ever since I began seeing him play. His performance would stop one’s eyes from blinking. It was hard to believe what was Clichy in that game with Newcastle . He was so strange, a record for me since he first joined. At the same level, in the remaining part of the season, he would emerge as the best left-back in English football –especially if he added 3-4 goals to himself.

Adebayor is another story. In him, you could see a Henry-like game, but unique thing about him is his strength. In the Newcastle game, there were some additions to his game. Onto his Coca-cola championship or Bendtner type of goals, he has added Edwardo-like goal instincts and formula of calm, relax (breathe in and out), then tapping the ball in.

 I had thought his true game would come out next season, in addition, to a remarkable one this season, but he is unleashing hidden stuff sooner than expected. You could see why he got so personal with Bendtner. He simply sees himself as having team burden and responsibility for the Club to succeed and has a venous relationship with it.

For Hleb, he is still alone of a kind at the Club. He is very entertaining and interesting to watch him play. There is not best description of him other than as Arsenal FC’s most precious asset and or material –perhaps, like diamond to the Club. If the Club had 2 or 3 Hleb-likes, it would be fantastic.

Hoyte can be impressive at breaking into opponent, but needs to learn more from Clichy and Sagna –especially in the areas of ball-winning tackles and ball-crossing. These are simple aspects to add where 3-6 training sessions and competitive games, respectively, would do.

Walcott played well on the wings with some domineering, firmness and pushing affront. He only needs to develop more of these and most importantly, being conscious about not losing the ball before passing.

Overall, the team trend of affairs is good. With continued playing together in competitive games with no sharp alterations, excellent standards would be set. And this season would wrap-up development of young players in the first team, but belief to win all, in addition to excellent team performances, is pertinent this time around in order to win the English Premiership.

Spurs game was very important in every sense and from all directions. From Man-UTD fans here, it was the best gift given to them. To them it more time throwing them a party to see Arsenal loses. And from Spurs, their inferiority complex over years was, with determination broken. And important for Arsenal FC, unless and as usual, refuse to take lessons, had a lot to force into its planning and management paper-work.

A lot has been left undone since the time of Ljumbergs in the areas of playing players who cannot play averagely in unnatural positions. This, as a result, has had serious consequences to the team results. The given reason as giving a player a chance to play would soon prove very costly to the Club in terms of results.

Diaby, for instance, is a serious case. Many instances have shown that he simply cannot play well as winger but a blind eye has been continuously held over the matter. Instead Arsenal FC continues to chose self-destructively and in self-defeating way.

Hoyte could have done well in the first leg, but it is well known that he does not have experience as a center half and therefore no reason to play him there. One and moreover second half game in the first leg is not enough experience to look at and consider. One cannot chose to play against a team that has been playing together for the last five months with experimental players and hope to gain results, more so after possible lessons from the first leg.

In this case, Spurs is one with sufficient time of playing together, which help deal with problems of poor passing or blind passes while it helps to create an effective and working rhythm and suitable combination of the team.

Otherwise for Arsenal FC, the need to play certain players in wrong positions that affect negatively their individual performances, instead, worsens team situation in achieving results as best as it should. What is however disturbing is that Arsenal FC seems to ignore all that while only waiting to pick consolation from after match and preview press conferences.

While looking for a creative central mid-fielder, Denilson would not be the person to call for and worse if he is to be partnered with Gilberto. That would be simply chaotic options to overall team objective. These are, firstly, players who play almost the same way and would down-play attacking objective of the team. They would act like Spurs or opponent spies in Arsenal FC since their influence would work only in favor of opposing forces.

On the special note, Gilberto should never be an Arsenal mid-fielder anymore because his mid-fielder role is below the current premiership trend and/or era, which demand pace and precision of a player. Instead, he could try central defense, which he has evidently proved himself best. It would, therefore, be laughable to continue playing him in the mid-field. Doing so would be inviting foolish outlook for Arsenal FC –to include the fans who never participate in decision making.

Whereas, Walcott cost Arsenal FC a lot of Money anticipated profitability and faith continuous to melt down. He is simply far from first team action as there is a lot for him to learn conclusively before getting himself in the line-up. If you compared him with second-rated Bendtner (according to selectors), Bendtner is by far ready for first team action, miles away in front of Walcott.

There is no reason why Walcott would come first in any premiership game rather than Bendtner. Is it because he is English? Or is it because of pressure by some English activists for Clubs to play English? And should this be at the expense of Club desired performance?  I would think that like Bendtner, Walcott too must go on loan and prove him self right for first team.

Yes, truly, Spurs fired at Arsenal so hard that they were taken for undeserved fools –such that more added three minutes of the added three would still give Spurs one other goal, to make it six but thanks to the stoppage time. This, perhaps, would teach the Club never to take any team for granted if they are to expect winning cups. It too could help break its useless pride that hardly transforms self into results or never consistent with pride itself.

Unless no lessons are learnt by Arsenal FC, the future would require serious contesting mind of a team and any young players should never exceed one. Even the young Fabregas then was the only one constantly to play in the first team from the reserve one before establishing himself.

In general Arsenal FC, if it is to mean business, must player players who have consistently been playing together over at least three months. And the other would be for them to replace baseless, like traditional pride with humility, and respect for opponents. Instead, must make attainment of three points every game, the tradition.

Waiswa Jacob

Situation Health Analyst.