The Deputy Chief Justice, Alfonse Owiny-Dollo, has ordered that a petition challenging the newly enacted
Constitutional Amendment Law, that scrapped 75 year upper age limit on the presidency, should be heard in Mbale on the 4th April 2018.
This is after Justice Owinyi Dollo met with all the 7 litigants and their lawyers today, and decided that all the 7 petitions be consolidated into one petition.
However several lawyers involved in the case, including the Lord Mayor Elias Lukwago and Wandera Ogalo have contested the hearing venue. But Justice Dollo maintained that the Constitutional court and its view about consitutional matters is the same, inrespective of where it’s sitting.
He has now ordered all parties to resolve their preliminary issues and get ready for hearing on 4th April.
The 7 litigants include; The Uganda Law society, 6 oppoistion MPs and one Male Mabirizi among others.
These are asking the Constitutional court to anull the Constitutional Law, which scrapped Presidential age limits.
The litigants’ common ground is that the masses were never consulted in this process, as Parliament sat to decide on the Presidential Age Limit in December last year.
Critics, the opposition politicians previously accused Owiny-Dollo’s predecessor Mr Kavuma of bending rules to serve the interest of the government and the ruling President Museveni.
