Countrywide — Two bishops yesterday separately likened lifting of the presidential age limit to "sale of Ugandans' birth right" and "ruin of the country's peace", others asked for time to study the proposal while Archbishop Stanley Ntagali called the debate "critical and sensitive".
Members of Parliament subscribing to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, the majority in the House, met informally last week and resolved to table a motion to delete Article 102(b) of the Constitution that caps the upper age for a prospective president at 75 years.
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