Olive Nakatudde
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Age Limit Bill: How MPs Voted

20 Dec 2017, 18:17 5082 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament Report

In short
Three hundred and seventeen Members of Parliament today voted in favour of the presidential age limit bill going for the third reading as Speaker Rebecca Kadaga finally put the controversial proposal to a vote. Ninety-seven legislators voted against the bill while two abstained. The Constitution Amendment Bill Number 2 of 2017, which seeks to amend Article 102b and remove presidential age limits, now goes to committee stage for legislators to consider it clause by clause. This is how different MPs voted on the Bill.


This is how different MPs voted on the Bill.


CALL AND TALLY SHEET
 
DECIDING ON THE MOTION FOR THE SECOND READING OF THE
CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL, 2017
Three hundred and seventeen Members of Parliament today voted in favour of the presidential age limit bill going for the third reading as Speaker Rebecca Kadaga finally put the controversial proposal to a vote. 

Ninety-seven legislators voted against the bill while two abstained. Those who abstained were Mukitale Biraahwa and Pius Wakabi with the former saying the country needs a national dialogue and consensus while the latter said his constituents are divided right in the middle on the issue.

The Constitution Amendment Bill Number 2 of 2017, which seeks to amend Article 102(b) and remove presidential age limits, now goes to committee stage for legislators to consider it clause by clause.


The voting was conducted by roll call and tally, in line with rule 89 of the Parliament's Rules of Procedure. 
The rule stipulates that voting at the second and third readings of the Bill for an Act of Parliament to amend a provision of the Constitution has to be by roll call and tally. 
The Clerk to Parliament Jane Kibirige called each of the 436 MPs to openly vote "Yes" or "No" to the second reading of the age limit Bill or to abstain.
This was the voting method used by the 7th Parliament in 2005 to amend Article 105(2) and delete the presidential term limits which would have barred President Yoweri Museveni from contesting in 2006 elections, having completed the two five-year terms from 1996.
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party which commands a numerical advantage in the 10th parliament needed 290 votes, constituting two-thirds of the 436 legislators entitled to vote, for the bill to sail through to the next stage. 
The Bill is now before the committee of the whole House where MPs are to consider clause by clause of the Bill.
After this stage, a question will be put for its third reading and another vote conducted before it is passes.
NAME OTHER NAMES
 CONSTITUENCY
 DISTRICT
 POLITICAL PARTY / INDEPENDENT
  
VOTE
AYES
 NOES
 ABSTAIN
1.                ABABIKU JESCA
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 ADJUMANI
 NRM
 YES
  
  
2.                ABACANON CHARLES ANGIRO GUTOMOI
 ERUTE COUNTY NORTH
 LIRA
 FDC
  
 NO
  
3.                ABALA DAVID
 NGORA COUNTY
 NGORA
 NRM
 YES
 
  
4.                ABIGABA CUTHBERT MIREMBE
 KIBALE COUNTY
 KAMWENGE
 NRM
 YES
  
  
5.                ABIRIGA IBRAHIM Y.A.
 ARUA MUNICIPALITY
 ARUA
 NRM
 YES
  
  
6.                ACHEN CHRISTINE AYO
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 ALEBTONG
 NRM
 YES
 
  
7.                ACHIA REMIGIO
 PIAN COUNTY
 NAKAPIRIPIRIT
 NRM
 YES
  
  
8.                ACHIA TERENCE NACO
 BOKORA COUNTY
 NAPAK
 NRM
 YES
  
  
9.                ACHIENG SARAH OPENDI
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 TORORO
 INDEPENDENT
 YES
 
  
10.             ACHIRO LUCY OTIM
 ARUU NORTH COUNTY
 PADER
 INDEPENDENT
  
 NO
 
11.             ACIDRI JAMES
 MARACHA EAST COUNTY
 MARACHA
 NRM
  
 NO
 
12.             ACON JULIUS BUA
 OTUKE COUNTY
 OTUKE
 NRM
 YES
  
  
13.             ADOA HELLEN
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 SERERE
 NRM
 YES
 
  
14.             ADEKE ANNA EBAJU
 FEMALE YOUTH REPRESENTATIVE
  
 INDEPENDENT
  
 NO
  
15.             ADOME BILDAD MOSES
 JIE COUNTY
 KOTIDO
 NRM
  
 NO
 
16.             ADONG LILLY
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 NWOYA
 INDEPENDENT
  
 NO
 
17.             AGABA ABBAS MUGISHA
 KITAGWENDA COUNTY
 KAMWENGE
 NRM
 YES
 
  
18.             AJILO MARIA GORETTI ELOGU
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 KABERAMAIDO
 NRM
 YES
 
  
19.             AKAMBA PAUL
 BUSIKI COUNTY
 NAMUTUMBA
 INDEPENDENT
 YES
 
  
20.             AKAMPULIRA PROSSY MBABAZI
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 RUBANDA
 NRM
 YES
 
  
21.             AKELLO JUDITH FRANCA
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 AGAGO
 FDC
  
 NO
  
22.             AKELLO LUCY
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 AMURU
 FDC
  
 NO
 
23.             AKELLO ROSE LILLY
 DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE
 KAABONG
 NRM
 YES
 
  

 

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Olive Nakatudde
Olive Nakatudde is a URN journalist based in Kampala. Nakatudde has been a URN staff member since 2013.

Nakatudde started out in journalism in 2009 with Dembe FM radio in Kampala. In 2012, Nakatudde joined Voice of Africa as a political reporter. She has been a photographer since her journalism school days at Makerere University.

Nakatudde is interested in good governance and public policy, which she reports on intensively from the Uganda Parliament. She is a keen follower of cultural affairs in Buganda Kingdom and covers the kingdom's Lukiiko (parliament). Nakatudde also reports on education and health.