{UAH} LEGAL OPINION: BEAR WITH ME!

Fellow Wanainchi! This Is a bit Complicated (might require meticulous analysis).

On Sept 24th 2004, Uganda's Supreme Court ruled that the act under which the 2000 referendum on political systems was held, was null and void. Thus
invalidating ALL GOVERNMENT BUSINESS CONDUCTED UNDER IT.

This implies that the Movement system after the 2000 referendum and the governance under it until the second referendum in 2005, is all  illegitimate, right?

Yet on December 10th, 2003, the Constitutional Review Commission had  completed it's task and handed over its report to then Justice and  Constitutional Affairs minister, Janat Mukwaya.

That report contained the proposal for the lifting of presidential term limits.

The chairman of that commission, Prof. Frederick Ssempebwa, therefore wrote a null and void minority report opposing the proposal to lift presidential term limits.

His minority report was over ruled by parliament when they went on to vote the lifting of presidential term limits.

Question: Aren't the February 2006 amendments to the Constitution (which also contains the lifting of presidential term limits) therefore null and void since it was premised on a null and void government process?

Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin.

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