Chachu Ombara
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Utata wa umri wa Rais wa Uganda umetatuliwa baada ya Ofisi ya Rais kutoa waraka wa ubatizo unaaonesha alibatizwa Agosti 3 1947, miaka 3 baada ya kuzaliwa kwake. Hivyo taarifa hii imethibitisha kuwa ana umri wa miaka 73 kama ambavyo Serikali imekuwa ikisema.
Ikumbukwe kuwa Rais Museveni alituhumiwa na upinzani kudanganya umri kabla ya uchaguzi mkuu mwaka jana. Wapinzani walidai amedanganya kuwa ana miaka 71 wakati umri wake halisi ni miaka 5 zaidi(76) na hakufaa kugombea.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's age has long been up for debate.
The Ugandan government has consistently said he was born in 1944, but before last year's general election the opposition accused Mr Museveni of lying, insisting he wasn't 71 but actually five years older and, therefore, too old to run for election as the country's age limit is 75.
Now the president's office has published what it says is a baptism document saying he was baptised on 3 August 1947 - three years after he was born.
That would make him 77 years old at the time of Uganda's next general election in 2021, and too old to run for a sixth term in office.
Uganda's constitution was amended back in 2006, enabling him to run for a third presidential term.
According to Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper, the president has said previously that he does not know the exact date of his birth.
"My parents were illiterate and so did not know the date," it quotes him as saying in his autobiography Sowing the Mustard Seed, published in 1997.
Nevertheless, he has insisted to the press that he is in excellent health, saying last week that he had never had a sick day in over three decades:
Have you ever heard that Museveni has fallen sick and my legs hanged in hospital, for the last 31 years? This is because I observe some of these health tips which have eventually helped me to prevent some of these diseases. Many of the diseases are preventable.”
Ikumbukwe kuwa Rais Museveni alituhumiwa na upinzani kudanganya umri kabla ya uchaguzi mkuu mwaka jana. Wapinzani walidai amedanganya kuwa ana miaka 71 wakati umri wake halisi ni miaka 5 zaidi(76) na hakufaa kugombea.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's age has long been up for debate.
The Ugandan government has consistently said he was born in 1944, but before last year's general election the opposition accused Mr Museveni of lying, insisting he wasn't 71 but actually five years older and, therefore, too old to run for election as the country's age limit is 75.
Now the president's office has published what it says is a baptism document saying he was baptised on 3 August 1947 - three years after he was born.
That would make him 77 years old at the time of Uganda's next general election in 2021, and too old to run for a sixth term in office.
Uganda's constitution was amended back in 2006, enabling him to run for a third presidential term.
According to Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper, the president has said previously that he does not know the exact date of his birth.
"My parents were illiterate and so did not know the date," it quotes him as saying in his autobiography Sowing the Mustard Seed, published in 1997.
Nevertheless, he has insisted to the press that he is in excellent health, saying last week that he had never had a sick day in over three decades:
Have you ever heard that Museveni has fallen sick and my legs hanged in hospital, for the last 31 years? This is because I observe some of these health tips which have eventually helped me to prevent some of these diseases. Many of the diseases are preventable.”
