National Resistance Movement members of Parliament who voted against lifting the presidential age limit have been cleared to attend the party’s forthcoming delegates’ conference.
The development comes just a week after they were left out of the list.
The NRM Secretary General Kasule Lumumba earlier said that the errant members will have to first face the party’s disciplinary board before they can be allowed back into the fold.
However, the NRM legal director Oscar Kihika, has maintained that these MPs will be allowed to attend the delegates conference this week.
The NRM delegates conference will be held on January 25 at Mandela National Stadium (Namboole).
Kihika last week came out and advised against blocking the members as had been announced by the party’s secretary-general Justine Kasule Lumumba during a media briefing.
Speaking to Kfm, Kihika confirmed that he had not been consulted by the party’s secretary-general before the announcement was made.
He, however, says while the MPs will be allowed to attend, they will at some stage still have to go through the party’s disciplinary process.
At least eleven NRM MPs voted against the removal of presidential age limit from the constitution. The NRM party position headed by President Yoweri Museveni was in favor of the constitutional amendment of the article 102 b in 2017.
Among the NRM MPs who stood their ground and resisted the party line were Patrick Nsamba, John Baptist Nambeshe, Dr Sam Lyomoki, Monica Amoding, Gaffa Mbwatekamwa, Barnabas Tinkasimire, Theodore Ssekikubo, Sylvia Rwabogo, Silvia Akello, Maurice Henry Kibalya, Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga, and Dokolo County MP Felix Okot Ogong.
