OK! LET ME REPEAT THIS. Restoring or lifting Uganda's Presidential term limits ISN'T about Museveni or any other individual. It's SQUARELY about Uganda and its hardworking citizens.
What does the country actually need? Surely MORE guarantees of peace and security for OUR own prosperity that we actually work hard for ourselves. Can there ever be enough assurances of peace? But that's EXACTLY what term limits are: A long term extra peace insurance for Ugandans. A tested principle that guarantees a swiftly and unquestionable handover from one elected civilian to another, and therefore creating the culture of handing over governance peacefully after a specified time. Those are the arguments for term limits when they were first written in the 1995 constitution by the Constituent Assembly. Do we need to table them again? It also puts a seal on the incumbency advantage which is an undisputed reality. People can change but a wise law protects the peace. More importantly, term limits are a tool allowing our country to achieve an important milestone: Peaceful handover/transfer of power is the last big hurdle in Uganda's democratization process. This so that the people never have to suffer with any future thugs fighting for state power. Time limits exist in any activity: football, office hours, planting season, playing time for children and retirement for the old. Our very lives are limited in time. It is legacies that continue far in the future. And ensuring presidential term limits are written in the constitution is such a legacy. Chaos is surely coming within the next ten years if we aren't careful about this matter. Has Uganda EVER crossed the "peaceful democratic handover" hurdle/bottleneck yet? So what are our so-called educated politicians waiting for to complete the democracy they claim they ushered in Uganda? Written by Hussein J. L. Amin
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