Kagame was speaking in Kenya yesterday during the 14th Summit of the Northern Corridor Integration Projects that was aimed at speeding up development of infrastructure in the East Africa region.
The summit reviewed progress made in the implementation of various resolutions reached during the 13th Summit held in Uganda in April, 2016.
Kagame thanked Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for hosting the summit.
“I thank President Uhuru Kenyatta for hosting and re-convening us after a two-year break to continue with the momentum we had started for our region, coming together and working on joint projects for the benefit of our countries and people. We had made headway in bringing government, businesses, local and foreign investors in partnership to enable these projects that are important to the development of our citizens,” Kagame said.
He noted that there is a lot of work to do towards the projects in the Northern Corridor Integration.
“There is always going to be a lot of work to do but this moment provides an opportunity to rexamine what has been done and what we still need to do,” he noted.
The NCIP is a multilateral development initiative established in 2013 and aimed at speeding up development in the region, particularly the improvement of infrastructure for ease of movement of people, goods and services in the East-African region.
It is also designed to link the land locked countries of Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and Burundi to Kenya’s Indian Ocean Port of Mombasa. The corridor also serves the Democratic Republic of Congo and northern Tanzania.
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