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President Museveni’s response to Age-Limit ruling

Tumwine Edward — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:29:56 +0000

“Unfortunately, our judges in Uganda spend more time on form and not substance, on procedure and not substance” is one of the many controversial statements that President Museveni said in response to the the recent judgement on the Age-limit. In a statement released on his website, he took a swipe at the judges and boasted how the country would still be able to make constitutional changes with or without the judges casting a shadow over the relationship the Judicial arm has with the Executive.

The ruling which saw 5 judges of the Constitutional Court deliver separate judgments at the Mbale High Court denounced the increase of term of office of the current parliament to 7 years.

It remains to be seen how the Judiciary will react to this scathing attack from the President given the status of their already strained working relationship of late since the Judiciary threatened to lay down their tools over Government’s plan to beef up security of Parliament members with armored vehicles and sharp shooters. Below is the full statement from the President.

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Section of NRM MPs call for censure of Minister Evelyn Anite

Isaac Senabulya — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:00:40 +0000

The NRM group opposed to age limit removal from the constitution is up for a move to censure minister of state for investment and privatization Evelyn Anite over her plot to remove the age limit from the constitution. The anti-age limit group which include the mp for workers mp Dr.Sam Lyomoki ,Kasanda north MP Patrick Nsamba ,manjiya county mp Johnbaptist Nambeshe ,Lyemiyaga county mp Theodore Sekikubo,kumi district woman mp Monica Amoding ,mp for Buyag west Barnabas Tinkasiimire and Dokolo south mp Felix Okot Ogong called for disciplinary action taken against Anite for involving the army in the violation of the constitution to do away with age limit.

MP Theodore Sekikubo

The Member of Parliament for Manjiya county in Bududa district John Baptist Nambeshe said that if Anite does not stop her move to abrogate the constitution and the appointing authority is not taking action will mobilize mps signature to censure her.

The MPs asked the UPDF to come out and speak out over this controversial issue which is tinting their image in public.

The woman member of parliament for kumi municipality monica Amoding question whether the president in his youthful years could have been confortable seeing people amending the constitution to remove age limit.

The MP for Dokolo south Felix Okot and mp for kasanda north Patrick Nsamba said that if the age limit removal from the constitution is right ,it should have been first cleared by the NRM party leadership and added that there a number of NRM mps opposed to the age limit issue but are still fearing.

Lwemiya county Thodore Sekikubo said that the group agitating for age limit removal should bring a report showing the number of each area support in the whole country if they have a genuine cause.

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Clerk to Parliament Aeneas Tandekwire replaced

Gerald Businge — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:09:23 +0000

Former Clerk to parliament Aeneas Tandekwire has been replaced by the parliamentary deputy clerk in charge of administration and services Mr. Chris Kajja and his second deputy Paul Wabwire.

The two will run the parliamentary affairs in an acting capacity as the house awaits the official appointment of a substantive clerk to parliament by president Museveni.

Kajja and Wabwire are now the new accounting officers of Uganda parliament. Article 87 of the Uganda constitution provides that it is the president who appoints the Clerk to parliament in consultation with the public service commission.

Tandekwire retired public service last week. Tandekwire has been the clerk to parliament since 1986.

The speaker of parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga has confrmed that Chris Kijja and Paul Wabwire are the new parliament accounting officers working in an acting capacity.

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