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Age limit talk is stupid, superflous and redundant – Ofwono Opondo

Matooke Republic by Matooke Republic
August 1, 2016
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Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo has said last week’s cabinet retreat in Kyankwanzi was about transforming Uganda to middle income status and not about limiting the Presidential age limit.

Ofwono who is the executive director of Uganda Media Centre, called the age limit talk “stupid, superfluous and redundant.”

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He was appearing on NBS TV with city lawyer Asuman Basalirwa who said there was a plan in the works to lift the presidential age limit from 75 to allow President Museveni to contest in 2021.

“Age limits will be removed. Mr Museveni will stand in 2021. Nobody in Parliament has capacity to stop that,” Basalirwa said.

“NRM has not officially taken the proposal on lifting the age limit into consideration, at least for now. Unless you are stupid, I have said it before and I will say it again, lifting age limit never came up in Kyankwanzi,” an agitated Opondo said.

President Museveni, First Lady Janet Museveni and ministers at the Kyankwanzi retreat.
President Museveni, First Lady Janet Museveni and ministers at the Kyankwanzi retreat.

Opondo said retreat was focused on improving service delivery and working relations between ministers and permanent secretaries.

Recently, Kyankwanzi Woman MP Ann Nankabirwa called for the lifting of the presidential age limit from 75 to allow President Museveni who will not be eligible to contest in 2021 to contest.

Ofwono said Nankabirwa didn’t attend the retreat as it was for ministers, permanent secretaries and NRM’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) and the agenda was to map ways to transform Uganda to middle-income status.

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