We may all argue that elective positions are not hereditary, but it’s no offence to front your child as your replacement for any position. And for this, Foreign Affairs minister and Mawogola North legislator, Sam Kutesa yesterday on Sunday announced plans of retirement from active politics come 2021 and officially introduced her daughter, Shatsi Musherure Kutesa to the political scene as he declared her fit to replace him as the MP for Mawogola North.
Kutesa who was at the voluntary cleanup exercise in Sembabule town first revealed his decision of not running again in the 2021 general election because he believes this generation deserves youthful leaders to take up the mantle. The minister has been occupying the Mawogola MP seat since 2001.
Shatsi Musherure seemed to have welcomed the task with both hands saying it is time for young and energetic youth to carry on from where parents have stopped.
Kutesa is not the first legislator to endorse a daughter to replace him in Parliament. John Ken Lukyamuzi ‘The man’ also fronted his daughter Suzan Lukyamuzi to take up his seat in Parliament in 2006 general elections.