Ruling party lawmakers have tuesday resolved to ammend the constitutional to enable President Yoweri
Museveni contest again.
A political move deemed as a reward to the NRM heavyweight to rule Uganda for life.
In unpopularised meeting convened at the Parliament’s Conference Hall A, saw majority of the 146 MPs make the decision which has recently become a subject of contention across the political divide.
A total of 145 members voted in favor of the motion which was moved by Kyaka MP Jackson Rwakafuzi while only one, Monica Amoding the Kumi woman MP differed.
Uganda’s constitution places a cap of age 75 for one to be eligible to contest for Presidency. As the law currently stands, President Museveni who is currently 73 won’t qualify to run in the next election.
Sources who attended the meeting referred to as a consultative meeting on several amendments said that members agreed that a motion
be moved seeking leave of the house to introduce a private members bill to scrap the age cap.
The MPs agreed to table the motion to Parliament on Thursday.
Hon. Amoding said she moved into the meeting without prior knowledge of the intention.
She would later storm out of the meeting and told journalists on the sidelines that fellow lawmakers are misleading the nation.
The opposition has in the recent months widely criticized the move to lift the Presidential age limit but NRM party members denied the claims saying the debate hadn’t been formally introduced.
Museveni has several times been quoted in local and international media referring to age limit debate as idle talk.
