“Our main need is electricity! Our other needs are good roads that link Pakwach to Wadelai, even by bicycle. We need to make technological leaps in agriculture. We need education.”

I decided to paraphrase the message of this community, because they insisted that four lines on manila was not enough to voice out their needs. Electricity is a huge issue, and who ever can promise it to the people of West Nile convincingly will surely win highly in this region. They have not had hydro electricity ever since it was invented, and since it was introduced to Uganda several decades ago. Why? I don’t know! In fact, most Ugandans have to do with power rationing every other day, because electricity is not enough to supply the less than 10 million electricity consumers in the whole country. Yet, Uganda has enormous resources it could have used to upgrade the electricity source made by colonialists in the 40s or 50s. In fact, Uganda suffers from similar bottlenecks in this routine of unpreparedness in several areas. That’s what has killed the transport sector, the agricultural productivity and education. These other three things I mention are the other pertinent points on the hearts of the people of West Nile. If the coming leadership can help correct these, which should have been corrected already anyway, the people will be somewhat content.