Veteran UPDF officer and senior presidential advisor Brig. Kasirye Gwanga has stormed parliament at a time when there are protests in different parts of the country against the presidential age limit removal bill, which is expected to be tabled in Parliament today.

While speaking to journalists at Parliament, Brig. Gwanga said, “I have come to Parliament to know what this hullabaloo is about. I am hearing about age limit, I’m over 65, you want to kick me out now? When you want to kick us out that we are outdated, I get worried. I am part and parcel of Uganda”.

“These parliamentarians are crazy! The manifesto of President Museveni talks about mechanization and irrigation. Have they talked about it?,” he added.

The bill to be tabled by Igara West MP Raphael Magyezi seeks to delete article 102b that provides for the upper age limit of 75 above which one is not allowed to stand for president.

If the article is not deleted, Uganda’s three-decade president Yoweri Museveni will be ineligible for reelection when the east African land locked third world country next goes to the polls in 2021.

It will be remembered that Gwanga told Buganda Kingdom’s BBS TV in a recent interview that it would be easy for Museveni to amend the constitution to remove article 102b.

The veteran soldier said that there is nothing new about constitutional amendments and the age limit clause will suffer the same fate as the term limit did in 2005.

“I have seen that constitution being changed all the time. That clause [on presidential age limit] will be removed,” he predicted. “They changed it in 2005 and removed term limits. What’s new? It’s not new.”

He also said Museveni won’t be kicked out of power by an age limit.

“If you think you will chase away Museveni basing on years, I pity you.”