Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Appeal Division of the East African Court of Justice has set February 24, 2022 as the date to hear the case in which lawyer Male Mabirizi-Kiwanuka is challenging the age limit removal from the Constitution of Uganda. A hearing notice dated January 17, by …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Appellate Division of the East African Court of Justice has issued timelines to be followed by the parties in the case where Kampala city lawyer Male Mabirizi is challenging the removal of age limit from the Ugandan Constitution. Mabirizi started this process in 2018 when …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party presidential candidate, Gregory Mugisha Muntu has said that members of parliament who voted in favor of age limit and term limit removal from the constitution made a very big mistake. In December 2017, parliament approved the amendment of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Lands, Persis Namuganza has said the drive for the age limit removal was not Speaker Rebecca Kadaga’s achievement, but the whole NRM party position. On Tuesday, Kadaga said it was her effort that pushed through the unpopular age limit law. She …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 19-year-old boy has picked presidential nomination papers from the Electoral Commission. Hillary Humphrey Kaweesa who picked the forms on Wednesday is in senior six vacation and a former student of Mengo Senior Secondary School. Kaweesa says that he attained three principal passes in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Male Mabirizi has withdrawn his application seeking a review of the Supreme Court decision upholding the scraping of the presidential age limit from the constitution. He announced the decision before a panel of seven Supreme Court justices this morning and didn’t specify reasons for …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The East African Court of Justice has dismissed with costs the consolidated cases filed by seven opposition politicians challenging the removal of the age limit law from the Ugandan constitution. The politicians are Winfred Kiiza the Kasese District Woman MP, John Baptist Nambeshe the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A panel of three Judges of the East African Court of Justice will hear consolidated appeals challenging the scrapping of the presidential age cap from the Ugandan Constitution. A notice issued by Yufnalis Okubo, the Registrar of the East African Court of Justice shows that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Supreme Court Judge Opio Aweri has adjourned the Age Limit review case filed by City Lawyer Male Mabirizi to the next convenient session. This is after both parties in the case told him that they will not be available on the two dates in …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN & AFP | The Deputy Attorney General, Mwesigwa Rukutana has said Ugandans have every reason to celebrate the ruling of the Supreme Court on the Age Limit appeal. Rukutana declared the verdict “a big win for Uganda”. “We are elated. This is a sign of how …
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