Ugandans equate president Museveni’s claims of discovering Uganda’s oil to the claims by the European colonialists ‘Sir’ John Hannington Speke is the one who ‘discovered Lake Victoria.’
Uganda citizens and many Africans in general say that it inconceivable that president Museveni, who prides himself in being an avid reader, would somehow be ignorant of the history of Uganda’s oil exploration.
The question then is why would the president be desperately trying to sell to Ugandans and the world in general his cock-and-bull oil story? It seems the president is copying a leaf from fallen Ugandan Presidents Milton Obote and Field Martial Iddi Amin Dada who wanted all Ugandans to believe that Uganda existed because they ‘wished it so.’
Like President Milton Obote and Amin’s ‘s characterization, it looks that president wants all people to believe that he is the one who discovered Uganda’s oil such that Ugandan citizens look at him as omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and generally invincible.
President Museveni’s desire to be seen as unbelievably brave and “visionary” is, apparently, one of the clinical attributes of pathological liars around the world. President Museveni’s critics argue that if he can massage something as well documented as Uganda’s oil story, they wonder how many of his heroic bush war stories are really true. The critics say that during Idd Amin’s regime many people in Bunyoro kingdom (western Uganda) were using crude raw oil for lighting so for Museveni claiming that he discovered that oil its an abuse and insult to people of Bunyoro.
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