{"id":1808,"date":"2017-10-30T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2017-10-30T06:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T03:58:19","slug":"bobi-wine-rejects-29000000-uganda-shillings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/bobi-wine-rejects-29000000-uganda-shillings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobi Wine Rejects 29,000,000 Uganda Shillings."},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of Parliament were given money, in order to buy their support for the pro removal of age limit campaign.<\/p>\n

The money given to the MPS was to help them in consultations about the age limit bill, in their different constituencies. This Constitution Ammendment Bill is in line with removal of the presidential age limit, which is currently from 35 to 75, hence allowing life presidency.<\/p>\n

Six opposition Members of Parliament had initially rejected this money, calling it dirty, and recently, more and more are joining.<\/p>\n

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MPS returning what they called dirty money<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you thought it was not possible for anyone in their rightful senses to reject a sum of twenty nine million Uganda Shillings, we have evidence from Hon Robert Kyagulanyi.<\/p>\n

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The letter to the bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While other Members of parliament took the money in cash to the Finance Officer. \u00a0Bobi Wine\/ Robert Kyagulanyi sent a letter back to his bank, rejecting the money, a sum of 29,000,000, before heading of to consult his people on the bill.<\/p>\n

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Bobi Wine’s people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He then proceeded to his people, dressed in a red togikwatako uniform, and addressed them on this removal.<\/p>\n

Besides Bobi Wine, other opposition legislators have also refused to be part of the move to support this bill.<\/p>\n

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Members of Parliament were given money, in order to buy their support for the pro removal of age limit campaign. The money given to the MPS was to help them in consultations about the age limit bill, in their different constituencies. This Constitution Ammendment Bill is in line with removal of the presidential age limit, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1736,451,1641],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-togikwatako","tag-bobi-wine","tag-robert-kyagulanyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}