MPs take anti-age limit removal campaign to constituencies 

Oct 09, 2017

The MPs will start with Kassanda North in Mityana where they will convene rallies to explain why they are opposed the amendment.

Manjiya County MP John Baptist Nambeshe

National Resistance Members of Parliament (NRM) opposed to the lifting of the presidential age-limit clause in the Constitution have embarked on a drive of taking their message across the country to convince NRM members not to support the Bill.

The Bill seeks to amend Article 102b of the Constitution to remove the presidential age-limit.

The MPs will start with Kassanda North in Mityana where they will convene rallies to explain why they are opposed the amendment.

Kassanda North is represented by Patrick Nsamba, whose motion for a Constitutional Review Commission was the basis for the NRM and Opposition MPs' opposition to the tabling of the age-limit motion by Raphael Magyezi.

Manjiya County MP John Baptist Nambeshe told New Vision that they have laid many strategies, all of which are "aimed at ensuring that the Bill experiences a miscarriage."

But Jinja municipality west MP Moses Balyeku, who seconded Magyezi's Bill when it was read for the first time last week, said, "Let them go on. We are not afraid of them. Power belongs to the people. The people will decide."

On whether they are also planning to take their message to their constituencies, Balyeku said, "We are also going to consult people. We shall go with what Ugandans want." 

 

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