{UAH} Mushega: Museveni is helplessly drunk with power
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Founding National Resistance Army [NRA] historical, Nuwe Amanya Mushega, has warned the ruling government against amending the constitution to scrap the presidential age limits.
Mushega, a veteran of the bush war that brought President Yoweri Museveni to power 31 years ago, told Uganda Radio Network [URN] that the ongoing efforts to scrap the presidential age limits will only create disaster for the country.
Mushega, a former Secretary General of East African Community, told URN in an exclusive interview last week that President Museveni is drunk with power.
"From experience and observation, power is more intoxicating that alcohol. The person drunk with power is drunk than a person drunk with crude waragi," Mushega told URN.
He said the difference with alcohol is that whatever one does eventually one must sleep and when one wakes up, there is time to reflect and talk to colleagues and be advised.
He said with power, however, one is permanently drunk. "In the washrooms, where you will be, you will want to see power surrounding you."
Mushega explained that allowing somebody to be permanently in that office for many years is so dangerous to the individual and to the state, a person is supposed to lead.
According to him, those advocating for the removal of the presidential age limits on grounds that it is bad and discriminatory are being deceptive, arguing that one cannot say a law is bad without allowing it to work and learn from it.
MPs rejects 7 year-term for Museveni
On how term limits, extension of tenure got into the age limit bill report, Legal Affairs committee chairman Jacob Oboth-Oboth says those were views and recommendations of people they consulted.
Minister Adolf Mwesige told the House that introduction of amendments (term limits, tenure extension) outside the scope of age limit bill is nothing unusual as it has been done before during the amendment of the Constitution in 2005.
MP Sylvia Rwabwogo wanted the Legal Affairs committee chairman Jacob Oboth-Oboth to convince the House how inclusion of extension of tenure from 5 to 7 years is beneficial to the age limit bill report.
The Leader of Opposition Winnie Kiiza said claims that extension of term tenure from 5 to 7 years purported to have been a recommendation by from presidential candidate Venansius Baryamureeba should have been captured verbatim and not paraphrased by Jacob Oboth-Oboth.
Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana said there is nowhere in the Legal Affairs committee report that recommends extension of tenure from 5 to 7 years for current Parliament.
Rukutana explained that the recommendation "is general".
MPs Medard Lubega and Monicah Amoding told the house that they never received any views of extending of term of President/Parliament as members of the committee.
"The committee was given work to do and they brought a report to us, is it in order for committee members to continue arguing in our presence when they had time to work it out?" Hon Namuganza reminded legislators.
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