Age limit: Three arrested for stoning MP's car
Butembe County MP Nelson Lufafa. FILE PHOTO
What you need to know:
- A section of Butembe County residents are opposed to the Constitution amendment and removal of presidential age limit which is seen as a move to allow President Museveni to extend his rule beyond 2021.
- Police used tear gas to disperse the irate audience to save the MPs from the violence, as Mr Lufafa, whose first consultative meeting had been disrupted, proceeded to Jinja CPS.
Three suspects are being detained at Jinja Central Police Station (CPS) for allegedly stoning an MP's car during the proposed lifting of the presidential age limit consultative meeting.
The Kiira region police spokesperson, Ms Diana Nandawula, on Monday said Gibson Bagole, Abed Isabirye and Quintal Okumu, all residents of Mafubira Sub-county, last Friday allegedly pelted stones at a car belonging to Nelson Lufafa (Butembe County, NRM) with stones at Mafubira Primary School.
The MP had gone to consult voters on the age limit Bill.
“We have arrested the suspects after MP opened up a case of malicious damage against them on file number: CRB No 833JC/7,” Ms Nandawula said.
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Age limit: Butembe residents stone MP Lufafa’s vehicle
Recently, four time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye while addressing a rally at Kazimingi in Jinja told residents to oppose age limit removal
How it happened
Shortly after Mr Lufafa started to address his audience, a group of youth wearing red ribbons around their heads stormed the venue singing the Uganda national anthem and anti-age limit rhetoric before their chorus degenerated into stone-throwing episodes.
Police used tear gas to disperse the irate audience to save the MP from the violence, as Mr Lufafa, whose first consultative meeting had been disrupted, proceeded to Jinja CPS.
A section of Butembe County residents are opposed to the Constitution amendment and removal of presidential age limit which is seen as a move to allow President Museveni to extend his rule beyond 2021.
Mr Zaidi Bazibu, one of the residents, said it’s time for President Museveni and his team to relinquish Uganda’s leadership because they are not looking at the issues affecting Ugandans.
Yusuf Kagonda, another resident, accused Mr Lufafa of giving Shs10,000 to people and ferrying them from different parts of the Constituency to attend the consultative meeting, adding that Mr Lufafa has not done anything to help his people out of poverty but rather help government keep power.
