For some days now, a group of legislators from the ruling party, National Resistance Movement, is illegally agitating to remove the age limit because it would give the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni a leeway to run for another term in the elections that would take place in 2021.
A three-month survey conducted between September and November by civil society organizations recorded that 85 percent of the sampled population opposed to the removal of the age limit with only 15 percent in support of the bill.
The Ugandan lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to remove the presidential age limits because they want to pave way for the current President Yoweri Museveni to serve a sixth term in office.
Human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has said that to remove the age limit-one of the most important safe guards-will entrench a dictatorial and autocratic regime in Uganda/
Personal life
Museveni is an Evangelical Christian and has preached a few times at the Miracle Centre Cathedral, a church he inaugurated in 2004. He is married to Janet Museveni (full name Janet Kataaha Museveni with whom he has 4 children:
Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba - Born in 1974, Senior Presidential Advisor for Special Operations
Natasha Karugire - Born in 1976, Fashion designer and consultant. Married to Edwin Karugire. Private Secretary to the President of Uganda for Household Affairs.
Patience Rwabwogo - Born in 1978, Pastor of Covenant Nations Church,[109] Buziga, Kampala. - Married to Odrek Rwabwogo.
Diana Kamuntu - Born in 1980, Married to Geoffrey Kamuntu.
Honorary degrees
Humphrey School of Public Affairs United States Doctor of Laws 1994
Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda Doctor of Laws 2003
Latin University of Theology United States Doctor of Divinity 2007
Fatih University Turkey Honorary degree 2010
Makerere University Uganda Doctor of Laws 2010
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