Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU-K) on Wednesday night November 27, 2024, added his voice on the issue of presidential term limit which has been popping up in the political arena for the last 12 months.

Speaking to a local TV station, Atwoli boldly said he would personally advocate for the removal of the term limit.

Defending his sentiments, the trade unionist argued that the term limit is the cause of many problems bedevilling the country at the moment.

He pointed out that some leaders had resolved to engage in early campaigns in anticipation of the lapse of the term limit to succeed the current head of state at the expense of pursuing development agendas.

Atwoli thus insisted that daily politicking is detrimental to the country.

“You know if you asked me as Francis Atwoli I would tell you let us remove the term limit. This is what is causing our problems. Someone is timing after 10 years, I want to be a president,” Atwoli responded when asked about the presidential term limit debate.

“Are Ugandans experiencing the same problems we experience here?” he posed

“People have made politics to be an industry… every day is politics from morning to evening because they know someone’s else term is almost ending,” Atwoli further claimed.

The COTU boss also made reference to countries under monarchs and kingdoms which he claimed are far more developed than countries under multi-party democracy doctrines.

Nonetheless, Atwoli pointed an accusing finger at the developed countries for pushing African nations to adopt multi-party democracy, which he claimed they have used as a tool to summon African Presidents and reduce them to beggars of financial aid.

Cherargei’s Bill

Cherargei recently was making headlines following his push to introduce a bill which proposed increasing of presidential term limit from five to seven years.

During the public participation phase, the Senate email almost crashed as over 120,000 Kenyans sent their written memoranda on the term limit Bill.

Amidst uproar from Kenyans, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party, of which Cherargei is a member, disowned the bill.

“The party therefore disassociates itself from the repugnant and backward Bill and calls any of its rank and file who leads, supports or is, in any manner whatsoever, involved with it, to order,” UDA Secretary General Hassan Omar said in a statement.

“The bill is incompatible with our policy and aspirations. This juvenile political experimentation and delinquent affront to our constitutional values must now be crushed to a halt!”