President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has signed the controversial age limit bill into an act. After all the bloodshed and arrests that took place in the last quarter of 2017 lifting of the presidential age limit was voted into law by parliament.<\/p>\n
According to the director of Communication of Parliament, Chris Obore, the bill was signed into law on December, 27th.<\/p>\n \u201cWe received communication from State House about the signing and as we talk, it is before the clerk\u201d, Obore said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Legislators on December 20th, 2017, passed the Constitution amendment bill dropping the 75 year upper age limit for presidential candidates and extending the term of Parliament to seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has signed the controversial age limit bill into an act. After all the bloodshed and arrests that took place in the last quarter of 2017 lifting of the presidential age limit was voted into law by parliament. According to the director of Communication of Parliament, Chris Obore, the bill was signed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6027,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1736,1133,261,1101],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-togikwatako","tag-president-museveni","tag-presidential-age-limit","tag-uganda-news"],"yoast_head":"\nAbout the Bill<\/h4>\n