Looking at the ongoing informal debate about the famous article 102(b). We have three categories of people supporting removal of age limit;

CATEGORY 1: Comprises the First family, Ministers, MPs, Top government employees, Top businessmen and women, Top comfortable army and police officers among others.

CATEGORY 2: Comprises friends, relatives, beneficiaries, children of those in category one plus middle business men who survive on government contracts and the pseudo bailouts.

CATEGORY 3: Comprises RDC’s, NRM diehards, illiterates, local leaders, cowards, hungry youth, opportunists (especially the young people) and so many without definition.

EXPLANATION
The first category of people are comfortable, Rich and smell power. Their children go to the best schools in the country and after they send them to study abroad. Sickness finds them on plane seeking first class medical care from the land of white people. They live a first class life, equipped with security and can access the biggest office at anytime. They have invested heavily in this country and if use the PARETO ABC analysis, they form the 10%. They control category 1 & 2. They don’t want to lose their grip on power and money because they understand the consequences of change.

CATEGORY 2&3 can be summarized as a group of unguided people who look up to category 1 as role models for survival. Their opinions are influenced by category one and they will always be quick to support anything championed by category 1. In case of change of government, they don’t suffer that much. They will immediately change goal posts and become sycophants of the new regime. You can never rely on people in these last two categories because they change with change.

So I implore us to keenly understand where the motivation for age limit removal stems from.
Welcome to Uganda the pearl of Africa.

The writer is a Mukiga from the cold Hills of Kigezi

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