Why I want Presidential Term Limit Removed – MP

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 –Fafi Member of Parliament, Salah Yakub, has listed performance as one of the key reasons he has come up with the scrapping of the two-term presidential limit.

Making the remarks on a live interview with one of the major publications in the country on Monday November 7 evening, the first-time lawmaker observed that the current Constitution was faulty and unfair to the president and has to be reviewed upwards as soon as possible.

“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.

But his opinion has since received a stream of brutal rejections from Kenyans who think he is not only out of order but also unreasonable in his thinking since it is illogical to start coming up with certain proposals just two months after new government took office.

“Of the dire challenges facing Fafi constituency (drought, hunger,lack of clean water, poverty, poor hospitals, lawlessness/bandit attacks, teachers withdrawal by TSC) this tyro MP sees as a priority a constitutional amendment to remove the Presidential term limits. Who cursed Fafi?” Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi reacted.

Fellow Lawyer, Miguna Miguna, on his part, termed this as another joke saying even just imagining this kind of change in a democratic space was another way of spelling doom to Ruto’s presidency.

Further, Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale also took issue with the proposal saying, in their United Democratic Alliance UDA Party, there could be freedom of speech but not on this one.

“I don’t know him yet. Granted, he enjoys the freedom of speech. However, he must be reminded that  UDA Party believes in the doctrine of Basic Structure & Essential Clauses in our Constitution. He is wrong & grossly out of order,” he commented.

Their responses are coming at the time the opposition force threatened to mount a rebellion on the current regime should such outrageous changes be officially brought about for debating.