A number of Ministers and National Resistance Movement Members of Parliament on Tuesday morning moved and adopted a motion to remove the Presidential Age Limit from the Constitution.
The MPs sat in an extraordinary meeting and voted on the contentious amendment of Article 102 of the Constitution.
The motion was moved by the Kyaka County MP, Jakson Rwakafuuzi, a lawyer by profession, and seconded by all the attendants except one — Kumi Woman MP, Monica Amoding.
MP Monica Amoding stormed out of the meeting in protest
In today’s meeting the MPs agreed for a private member to formally move the motion to the floor of Parliament during a plenary sitting on Thursday afternoon.
ChimpReports understands the mobilization of the MPs was secretly done by the State Minister for Investment, Evelyn Anite and a number of NRM MPs led by Raphael Magezi of Igara Constituency.
Some of the cabinet members that attended the meeting included Adolf Message (Defense and Veterans Affairs), Karoro Okurut (General Duties in the Office of the Prime Minister), Ronald Kibule of Water and Galabuzi Soozi of Luwero Triangle as well as Anite herself.