Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukuntana has told court in Mbale hearing the age limit petition that parliament acted within the law and prescribed procedures to amend the Constitution including the lifting of the 75 year old presidential age limit and enlargement of the MPs and LC5 leaders tenure term in office from five to seven years.
Rukutana and solicitor General Francis Atoke led a legal team of other 18 state Attorneys in their effort to prove before a panel of five justices that the law was constitutionally passed. He adds that government did not break any law while facilitating the entire process leading to the amendment of the constitution including the funds from the consolidated fund to pay 29 million shillings to each mp fir consultations.