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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 –Bobi Wine born Robert Kyagulanyi has told Kenyans to be careful with the emergence of forces pushing for the scrapping of presidential term limit.
In his Tuesday November 8 statement over the debate on the amendment of the Constitution to extend president’s term limit, Mr. Kyagulanyi warned that dictatorial signs start as a joke before they morph into an irreversible monster.
The politician added that in Uganda, Yoweri Museveni who has ended up serving for 36 years in office started sending such irritant signals through proxies before it became a reality.
“Dear Kenyans, be vigilant. Save your country from Museveni. This may come off as a lone MP making a ridiculous suggestion, but this is how it starts.
“Exactly how Museveni began schemes to remove term and age limits. Defend your Constitution before it’s too weak to defend you!” he tweeted.
The Ugandan opposition leader weighed on the matter shortly after a Kenya Kwanza-allied politician, Salah Yakub, who is the current Fafi member of Parliament threatened to start a discussion in Parliament on how to infinitely extend the president’s term in office.
“We want to tell Kenyans that the limit on two terms for president should be relooked. We want it to be changed to an age limit where one gets to 75 years then he or she cannot contest.
“We will come up with an amendment Bill to try and change this because we want the requirement to be on age limit and not terms.
“If a president is doing good job then he or she should not be limited by the terms,” Yakub stated.
His remark was however met with an equal resistance from politicians and supporters from both ends of the political divide who warned that Kenya is not yet ready to compromise its Constitution in favour of any president.
