Mayor of Uganda's capital Kampala arrested

The Lord Mayor of Uganda's capital Kampala was arrested this morning and is still in police custody.
Police said they had information that Erias Lukwago would lead protests against scrapping the age limit for standing for president.

They say they found "anti-age limit" T-shirts in his office at City Hall.
He is in detention and is unable to respond to these accusations.

It comes as MP Raphael Magyezi from the ruling NRM is expected to table a motion in parliament seeking leave to prepare a bill to scrap the upper age limit.

The country's age limit for the presidency is currently 75.

President Yoweri Museveni says he is 73. That means, as the law stands right now, he would not be able to stand in the next election.

There is a sense of tension all over Kampala, where a lot of police have been deployed.
Anti-terror police are surrounding the parliament building and military police are patrolling the city.
Even MPs are being searched by security as they enter parliament.