*🇺🇬Uganda's 👔President Museveni Signs Age Limit 📜Bill into ⚖Law*

 *🇺🇬Uganda's 👔President Museveni Signs Age Limit 📜Bill into ⚖Law*

President Museveni has signed into law the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 of 2017, popularly known as the age limit bill, recently passed by Parliament. Linda Nabusayi, the President's press secretary confirmed this with the reporter saying Museveni signed the bill into an Act of Parliament on December 27 before sending the communication on December 29.

This means that Museveni, 73, can run for another term of office come 2021 presidential elections, should he choose to. The signing comes amid calls from religious leaders and political activists urging the president to return the bill to Parliament. On December 10, Parliament voted by a majority of 317 MPs against 97 to change the Constitution and remove the 75-year age limit on the presidency and to extend the term of MPs from five to seven years.

The Archbishop of Gulu, who doubles as the chairman of Episcopal conference John Baptist Odama, had, like other religious leaders, cautioned Museveni against appending his signature on the bill. Archbishop Odama had said if Museveni signed the Bill, knowing it was passed without the views of majority Ugandans, he [Museveni] would be tormented by his conscience.