John Bahana the Coordinator
of the International community for Bakyankigezi wrote in the Monitor of August
6, 2013 about how him and his group were denied Canadian visas. Subsequently there
was a string of responses on the Monitor Newspaper blog. Reading through these
comments, you appreciate that people are not happy with these visa problems. The
key challenge we have is poverty in Africa. It is not common that wealthy
people want to associate with the poor. The message that is being sent to you
as Africans is to devise means of improving your economies. It is wealth that
binds west together to accept one another to move into their respective
countries with little visa restrictions. If we do not plan to get out of poverty,
this problem will live on forever. This challenge to our leadership, no amount
of negotiations and protocols will solve the visa problem.
South Africa which
has 40 million blacks and 5 million whites imposes visa restrictions on the
rest of Africa. The reason is very simple. South Africa is more developed than
the rest of Africa and they would not want to share their success and wealth
with the rest of the poor Africans. Let us get up and work, improve our
productivity, produce more and history will judge us.
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