Uganda’s 2026 polls roadmap laden with all-too-familiar supreme law review talk
Ugandan lawmakers fight with plain-clothes security personnel in the parliament while protesting a proposed age limit amendment bill debate to change the constitution for the extension of the president's rule in Kampala, Uganda September 27, 2017. PHOTO | REUTERS
Uganda may be three years away to the next elections but talk of another constitutional review is firmly back on the roadmap. This time, one man who had been pushing for the very reforms is now in the hot seat and wants the public to trust him with the job.
Norbert Mao had been, for years, part of the wider face for the opposition push for legal reforms seen as a way to settle unresolved political contests that have played out for nearly four decades of President Yoweri Museveni’s rule. Now as the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, he will lead the government narrative of the reforms.
