Makindye East legislator Allan Sewanyana has vowed never to go back for interrogations at the Kibuli-based Criminal Investigations Directorate linked to lifting of the age limit.
According to Sewanyana, the police today got enough information from him during interrogation. “What is important is I will not come back to CID on Thursday; they have asked me whatever they wanted,” the legislator said.
Sewanyana is part of a group of MPs that are opposed to amending the Constitution to remove the 75-year presidential limit cap, and he together with colleagues Muhammad Nsereko (Kampala Central) Winfred Niwagaba (Ndorwa East) and Barnabas Tinkasimire (Buyaga West) were yesterday issued summons to appear at the CID for alleged ‘offensive communication’ and ‘inciting the public’.
And today Sewanyana and Nsereko accompanied by colleagues Samuel Odonga Otto (Aruu County), and MPs Kato Lubwama (Lubaga North), Lutamaguzi Semakula appeared in Kibuli, and after interrogation, vowed to resist any move aimed at lifting the age limit cap.
Their two colleagues, Niwagaba and Tinkasimire did not turn up, but this did not stop Sewanyana and Nsereko from voicing out their concerns, even as the police stood watching nearby.
Sewanyana shot the first salvo, warning he stop block the moving of a private members bill by Igara West MP Raphael Magyezi, come Thursday.
Then Nsereko also shot from the hip, vowing to resist ‘intimidation by partisan people’. According to Nsereko, “freedom of expression is enshrined in the Constitution, and not offered by anyone.”
“I don’t know why police are so concerned with what we say; we are standing our ground no matter what,” Nsereko said at Kibuli CID headquarters.
‘’Our colleagues who have everything including the support of the army are scared, what is making them panic?’’ Nsereko wondered.
Earlier before being summoned Nsereko, who vowed to ‘tear the bill to pieces’, had implored the public to snub those MPs supporting the lifting of the presidential age limit.
“Detest them, disassociate from them and isolate them,” Nsereko said.
However, during a press conference held at Parliament this afternoon, Magyezi vowed to move the motion seeking an amendment of Article 102 (b).
