Uganda: Govt to US - We Won't Let Misguided Opposition Intimidate MPs

21 September 2017

Kampala — The government on Thursday responded with derision to criticism by the US ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac on arrests of opponents of the proposal to remove the presidential age limit and Wednesday's raid on the offices of two NGOs.

Mr Ofwono Opondo, the executive director of Media Centre, the government information clearing house, said that while they "value diplomatic relations with all the countries of the world, Uganda is not very keen to take unqualified lectures from foreign agents."

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