Ugandan Parliamentarians Fight And Throw Chairs Over A Bill To Extend President 31yrs Rule

A bill brought by the decision party in Uganda to expand the 31-year manage of President Yoweri Museveni has made legislators battle in parliament. 


It is now and again said that governmental issues is a blood game, and no one realizes that more than these Ugandan MPs who were associated with a mass fight inside their parliament on Tuesday. Many administrators reached boiling point as individuals from the restriction party endeavored to prevent the decision body from passing a law expelling the age top from the administration. 

The battle began after some resistance pastors blamed managing party individuals for conveying weapons, starting a wild contention which transformed into pushing and in the long run fighting.
Punches and chairs were thrown as ministers fought on tables and across rows of seats before plainclothes secret service agents hauled members of the opposition from the main chamber of parliament, located in Kampala. After most of her ministers were hauled away by force, the leader of the opposition led the rest of her members in a walk-out, accusing the majority party of intimidation. 

 
Ugandan law currently bans anyone over the aged of 75 from holding the country's highest office, meaning current President Yoweri Museveni, 73, is ineligible to run in the next election.
But his party, the National Resistance Movement, has now brought a bill to scrap that law. Maximum term limits have already been removed, meaning the new rule change would allow leaders to rule indefinitely.
 
The National Resistance Movement holds a massive majority in parliament, meaning the law is almost certain to pass when it goes to a vote. Opposition leaders say Museveni, who has ruled the country since helping to overthrow previous Ugandan leaders Ugandan leaders Idi Amin and Milton Obote, is attempting to establish a rule for life.
 
Museveni has so far refused to be drawn on whether or not he wants to run at the next election, saying that the issue is 'not important'. 
Police have violently broken up street demonstrations protesting the effort to amend the constitution, arresting scores since the past week. Erias Lukwago, the mayor of the Ugandan capital of Kampala, told reporters he is getting medical care after police officers allegedly 'squeezed' his genitals while arresting him outside his house last week.
 
Museveni, a U.S. ally on regional security, took power by force in 1986 and was re-elected last year in a poll marred by allegations of fraud and voter intimidation. Although Museveni warned in the past that Africa's problem was leaders 'who want to overstay in power,' he has since said he was speaking about leaders who were not elected.
 Uganda has never seen a peaceful change of power since independence from Britain in 1962.