Makerere Student arrested holding a poster asking M7 not to amend age limit

Makerere Student arrested holding a poster asking M7 not to amend age limit

By Spear Team

A  student leader at Makerere university was placed behind bars by the Special Forces Command  for waving a poster that is against amending article 102 (b) of the constitution during  the during the Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture  at Makerere Main Hall on Thursday.

Martin Musiime, also a Representative of Mitchell Hall to Makerere Students’ Guild Council,  was among the participants inside the University Main Hall, and  as the president was about to give his closing remarkes.

He stood up holding a poster with writings “Leave Article 102(b)”, at this moment soldiers of the Special Forces command whisked him away and detained at Makerere University Police Station under file reference number 28/31/08/2017.

Sources at Makerere police station stressed that he was charged with inciting violation and currently he is detained at Wandegeya police Station. Our efforts to get a comment from the Wandegeya police boss were futile as he failed to pick our calls.

Earlier, at the same function, MP Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert asked Museveni to address the challenges that are facing the current generation to better the lives of the youth in the country.

“Mandela is quoted to have said that it is upon a generation to be great, you can be the generation, so I want us to take a lesson as young people of this country, that every generation has its own challenges.

For  Mandela  it was Apartheid, for Nyerere and Nkrumah’s it was colonialism and for Museveni and his comrades it was bad politics and instability, for us it is unemployment, exclusion and corruption.”

Bobi wine was reacting to president Museveni’s comments of which he criticized youths for spending a lot of time discussing European leagues and fighting to take over power and advised them to pick a leaf from Mandela.