Arua Municipality and ruling party lawmaker Ibrahim Abiriga has said he is subjected to harassment by the public for backing removal of Presidential age limit bill.
Abiriga, is among the seconders of the controversial motion tabled in Parliament by his colleague Raphael Magezi a representative of Igara West.
“Wherever I pass people shout at me, Abiriga this, Abiriga that, Abiriga you have grown old, Abiriga you are stupid,” he confessed before cameras at Parliament on Tuesday.
To prove the torment he goes through daily, this NRM diedhard dared journalists to move with him in his car, “pedestrians, boda boda cyclists all hurl insults at me. Even those who are inside hotel eating when they see me they all shout Abiriga…my question is why should they know me in every corner….why?”
He said the public persecution doesn’t stop only in Kampala but also in his constituency.
“Even when I am going to Arua, some people lay on the road they don’t want me to pass. They shout Togikwatako,” he said.
Majority of the NRM MPs faced resistance in their constituencies as they attempted to rally electorates to support scrapping of age cap.
Ugandans anticipate that once the constitution is successfully amended, this will have paved way for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s life presidency.