Gen. Moses Ali is a bitter man. Bitter with those who find his being a minister at an advanced age a problem.
“It is God who decides to make us as old as we are, what is your problem of age, as if you are not going to be old?” Ali who is First Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business in Parliament queried.
77-year-old Ali warns young people who find his age a problem that they should learn to live with the fact that the old men are not going anywhere.
“You can’t just get tired of us, we brought this country to where it is now,” he said.
He said that the cabinet now has grandfathers, fathers and children, saying it was a good mix to steer the country to the next level.
“How can these grandchildren learn without us? We need to be around to guide them,” he said.
He likened those who have a problem with his age to those who wish their biological fathers and grandfathers death just because they are of advanced age.
Moses Ali is actually younger than Hajji Ali Kirunda Kiveginja who at 81 is the oldest cabinet minister. Most people think Philemon Mateke is the oldest cabinet minister, but his official age is 73 as records indicate he was born in 1943.