The Clergy, under umbrella organisation Inter-Religious Council of Uganda made these remarks on Wednesday in the Capital Kampala through their chairman, the Mufti of Uganda, Sheikh Shaban Ramadan Mubajje.
The group also stated that they want the proposed amendment to be handled separately from that of the presidential age limits.
Experts report the Term Limit clause is one of the “entrenched” provisions of the constitution under Article 260, “which means it cannot be amended through a mere vote in Parliament – It must go through a national referendum,”
In October, during the an NRM Executive Council meeting at State House Entebbe, President Museveni suggested that a five-year presidential term is too short for a head of state to deliver.
“After an election, you spend about one year settling in and before you know it, another electioneering period sets in,” a source quoted Museveni as having said.
The president reportedly did not suggest how long a presidential term should be, until this month when a section of MPs used the end of their four-day retreat at Serena Lake Victoria Resort Kigo in Wakiso district to propose an amendment to seven years.
Meanwhile, Parliament’s Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs will on 18 December table its report on repealing the upper age limit for presidential candidates, Daily Monitor reported Thursday.
Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, told the newspaper, the committee gave her a copy of the report on Wednesday.
“I am giving notice that we shall convene on Monday at nine o’clock in the morning so that we can have sufficient time for debate,” Ms Kadaga is quoted as saying. “Therefore, Parliament will convene to receive both the report and the Minority Report.”
