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Two of the committee members, Mathias Mpuuga and Medard Lubega Seggona are opposed to the meeting which they believe will be more of a lecture than an interaction. Other committee members, among them Muhammad Nsereko, Hamson Obua, Monica Amoding, Anna Adeke and Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda are out of the country. A number of them are attending the EAC Inter-Parliamentary Games in Dares salaam, Tanzania.
More than ten members of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of parliament will not attend a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni to be held later today.
Members of the committee are due to meet president Museveni over the proposal to amend the Presidential age limit currently capped at 75. The meeting is taking place at State House, Entebbe.
However, two of the committee members, Mathias Mpuuga and Medard Lubega Seggona are opposed to the meeting which they believe will be more of a lecture than an interaction. They add that president Museveni, as the sole beneficiary of the proposed amendment, is capable of compromising members.
Other committee members, among them Muhammad Nsereko, Hamson Obua, Monica Amoding, Anna Adeke and Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda are out of the country. A number of them are attending the EAC Inter-Parliamentary Games in Dares salaam, Tanzania.
URN has learnt that only 18 out of the 29 members of the committee are part of the delegation to Entebbe. The delegation also includes six newly elected legislators who were recently designated to the committee by the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party.
Among them are Rubanda Woman MP Prossy Akampurira Mbabazi, Kaabong Woman MP Rose Lilly Akello, Iganga Woman MP Brenda Asinde Ssuubi, and Rukiga Woman MP Caroline Kamusiime.
But Masaka municipality Member of Parliament Mathias Mpuuga says it's unfortunate that a meeting with the president was set up in the absence of members, whose duties out of the country were sanctioned by Parliament.
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Similarly, Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo says the presence of a sizeable number of members who have not been part of the process is unrealistic.
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Busiro East MP Medard Lubega Seggona says that meeting President Museveni could end up intoxicating members.
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Members of the committee are due to meet president Museveni over the proposal to amend the Presidential age limit currently capped at 75. The meeting is taking place at State House, Entebbe.
However, two of the committee members, Mathias Mpuuga and Medard Lubega Seggona are opposed to the meeting which they believe will be more of a lecture than an interaction. They add that president Museveni, as the sole beneficiary of the proposed amendment, is capable of compromising members.
Other committee members, among them Muhammad Nsereko, Hamson Obua, Monica Amoding, Anna Adeke and Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda are out of the country. A number of them are attending the EAC Inter-Parliamentary Games in Dares salaam, Tanzania.
URN has learnt that only 18 out of the 29 members of the committee are part of the delegation to Entebbe. The delegation also includes six newly elected legislators who were recently designated to the committee by the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party.
Among them are Rubanda Woman MP Prossy Akampurira Mbabazi, Kaabong Woman MP Rose Lilly Akello, Iganga Woman MP Brenda Asinde Ssuubi, and Rukiga Woman MP Caroline Kamusiime.
But Masaka municipality Member of Parliament Mathias Mpuuga says it's unfortunate that a meeting with the president was set up in the absence of members, whose duties out of the country were sanctioned by Parliament.
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Similarly, Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo says the presence of a sizeable number of members who have not been part of the process is unrealistic.
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Busiro East MP Medard Lubega Seggona says that meeting President Museveni could end up intoxicating members.
//Cue in: "He believes that…
Cue out:…get is cursed"//
