Agago North MP Morris Ogenga Latigo has referred to the Igara West legislator Raphael Magyezi, who tabled the age limit bill, as a spirit medium through which a certain ‘spirit’ is speaking.
“He is a spirit medium… All these things are happening through him, they are not by him and the rest of the members too are possessed by this spirit. It is very rare to find someone above 75 years seeking to be president. Why would he table such a bill?” Latigo wondered, while appearing on a local TV this morning.
However, Latigo could not tell which spirit he meant, before swearing that him and other members will soon go to court to challenge the contentious bill.
He argued that if this amendment was so legitimate, it would have been tabled by the minister of Justice and Constitutional affairs, Kahinda Otafiire.
“We would not be debating this now because that is the mandate of constitutional affairs ministers. If that minister brought it, we would be faced with this challenge of convincing Ugandans that look, this amendment was brought legitimately… But the fact that the minister shied away, the fact that the cabinet shied away and they allow somebody to bring the bill tells you the level of dishonesty,” Latigo added.
Asked why he would downplay Magyezi’s freedom to table such a bill, he argued that the Igara west legislator is just an ordinary parliamentarian.
“That’s why when I was the Leader of Opposition, the opposition brought up some set of constitutional amendments, the best we did was to present them to speaker Kadaga. I would have said me Latigo, people like me, let me table a private members bill. But I didn’t do that. We went to speaker Kadaga and told her this is what we want to be amended because I didn’t have the mandate: an individual member of parliament and the opposition are grouped as private,” he explained.
He concluded by saying that Ugandans have two options remaining: either to stand up and save the future of this country, or sink it out of fear.