Dr. Besigye Asks Religious, Cultural Leaders to Join Efforts to Protect Article 102

Dr. Kizza Besigye, the former Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party president has asked religious and cultural leaders to join efforts with the opposition to stop attempts to amend article 102 from the constitution.

The article restricts those seeking to contest for presidency to between 35 and 75 years of age.
However, a group of National Resistance Movement party leaning legislators has endorsed a proposal to delete the article from the constitution to allow president, Yoweri Museveni to seek contest in the 2021 polls.

The group has tasked Raphael Magyezi, the Igara East MP, to spearhead the consultation process and present a private members bill on the floor of parliament.

Following the resolution by the NRM legislators, Dr. Kizza Besigye, the former FDC party president, has asked religious and cultural leaders to join the opposition to stop attempts to temper with the said constitutional provision.

While campaigning for Doreen Watsemba, the FDC candidate for the Namisindwa district woman MP seat on Wednesday, Besigye said those with intentions of amending the constitution can only be stopped once Ugandans speak with one voice.

He said it is up to the voters to push the legislators and their leaders not to tamper with the constitution. Nathan Nandala Mafabi, the FDC General Secretary also asked the voters to punish all the legislators in support of the proposed amendment. He explained that the constitution is a sacred document that should be protected at all cost.