Uganda: MPs Who Opposed Age Limit Entitled to Attend Meeting, Says NRM Legal Boss

15 January 2020

In a twist of events, the Director of legal services of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has advised against a move by the party's secretariat to bar all MPs who voted against the removal of the Presidential age limit from attending the forthcoming national Delegates Conference at Namboole Stadium.

In a letter written to the NRM Secretary General, Justine Kasule Lumumba dated January 15, 2020, Mr Oscar John Kihika says that the 30 members that opposed the age limit bill are entitled to attend the conference by virtue of Article 11(2) (i) of the NRM party constitution.

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