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Uganda bans protests amidst bid to halt presidential historic catamenia limit


Ugandan constabulary convey banned a protestation gear upwards for Th when lawmakers fence plans to chip a presidential historic menstruation limit, seen equally a bid to pave the agency for Yoweri Museveni to assay a 6th term equally leader.

A ruling political party lawmaker is expected to pose forwards a nib to ameliorate a constitutional provision that states the president must hold upwards betwixt 35 together with 75 years old.

Museveni, who has been inwards purpose since 1986, has said he is 73 years old, which nether the electrical flow law would forestall him from running inwards elections inwards 2021. However his truthful historic menstruation is the dependent area of much debate.

Police original Kale Kayihura said inwards a disceptation that a planned protestation was intended to crusade "violence together with mayhem" together with urged demonstrators to utilisation "indoor meetings" to limited their opinion.

"Parliament should hold upwards left to fence without undue, irresponsible, permit lonely criminal, protest," he said.

Meanwhile on Wed nighttime constabulary raided the premises of anti-poverty international NGO Action Aid which has been critical of the motion to chip the historic menstruation limit.

A constabulary search warrant said the raid was linked to "illicit transfers of funds to back upwards unlawful activities."

However, Action Aid Republic of Uganda communications officeholder Samanya Kyategeka told AFP from within the edifice that the thirty staff were beingness interrogated almost issues related to the historic menstruation boundary together with that they were non allowed to leave.

In July, Action Aid Republic of Uganda issued a disceptation calling for Ugandans to "organise" together with proverb that removing the historic menstruation boundary "spells disaster non simply for Republic of Uganda but the region" equally it threatened the peaceful transfer of ability from ane president to another.

Security forces convey been heavily deployed inwards Kampala since Mon amongst state of war machine constabulary camping ground out inwards the primal foursquare together with armoured vehicles positioned some parliament.

Museveni, a veteran sometime rebel leader who seized ability inwards 1986, ending years of cruel together with murderous dominion nether Idi Amin together with Milton Obote, ane time said leaders who "overstayed" inwards ability were the root of Africa's problems.

However he successfully changed the constitution inwards 2005 abolishing a two-term limit, together with has since gone dorsum together with forth on the historic menstruation requirement.

In 2012 he said at that topographic point was some "scientific logic" behind the requirement equally leaders over 75 lacked the necessary vigour.

However final calendar week he told the Daily Monitor it was upwards to doctors to decide whether a someone was "fit to Pb or not”.

AFP

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