Uganda: Age-Limit Debate in CA - Besigye, Sejusa Opposed 75-Year Cap

5 September 2016

With heated debate on the presidential age limit in the constitution likely to dominate political discourse in the next couple of months and probably years, Edris Kiggundu revisited the Constituent Assembly (CA) deliberations of 1994-5 to trace the origin of this clause.

Interestingly, he finds that the 75-year age cap was proposed by the late Brigadier Noble Mayombo and opposed by many prominent politicians today, including Dr Kizza Besigye.

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