The presidential age limit debate is still on, this time with demonstrations upcountry. A few weeks after scores of residents of Lira town took to the streets, their counterparts in Kabale came in droves.
Hundreds of the ruling party, National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters in Kabale district took to the streets yesterday to stage demonstration to agitate for the removal of the presidential age limit.
Led by Edison Turyahabwa, the NRM publicity secretary for Kabale district and Sheikh Kassim Kamugisha the Kabale district NRM youth league chairperson, the demonstrators carried placards with some of them bearing words like; ‘Kick Age Limit out of the Constitution (KALOC)’.
Others had; ‘Below 35 years for Presidency Above 75 years for Presidency, and ‘Kabale Taxi drivers support lifting of the Presidential Age limit’ among others.
However, some Kabale residents distanced themselves from the demonstration, saying the people who took park were ferried into the district.