Museveni and the NRM are mother lodes of fool's gold to Ugandans
Key Words: Yowri Museveni, National Resistance Movement / Army (NRM/A), Uganda People's Congress (UPC), Democratic Party (DP); The Lost Counties of Bunyoro; Kabaka Mutesa II; Buganda; Forum for Democratic Change (FDC); Kizza Besigye . Fool's gold is a sulphide mineral with a golden lustre, especially pyrite. Careless geologists can sometimes mistake it for gold. It is our view that people who supported Museveni's misadventure in 1981 and embraced the NRM in 1986, only to fall out with them later, were like careless geologists who mistook fool's gold for the real thing. Our friends in the FDC and DP, who now assert that Museveni took them for a ride to fight for a fool's paradise , fall into this category. Even the Buganda monarchy, through its young prince, then living in London, was not spared by this swindle. Given their about-face on policy matters Ugandans took seriously, the NRM typifies a fool's gold. First, they preached revolutionary, fundamental chang...