{Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Tuesday offered to help resolve the controversy threatening to break up the East African Community.}<\/p>\n
Mr Odinga appealed to Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta, Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda) to urgently pick a panel of statesmen from the EAC to resolve the controversy that has seen Tanzania threaten to pull out of the political and economic bloc.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to propose to regional Heads of State that a panel of statesmen from the EAC be put together to work out a mechanism to resolve the impasse and put the union back on track,\u201d he told a press conference.<\/p>\n
Asked whether he was ready to sit on the panel if picked, Mr Odinga answered in the affirmative. <\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I\u2019m ready to represent Kenya on that panel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Odinga has previously resisted overtures from the Jubilee Government to appoint him Kenya\u2019s envoy at large, with his supporters terming it a ploy to push him into political retirement.<\/p>\n
The Cord leader\u2019s concerns came in the wake of reports from Dar es Salaam that Tanzania was considering a pulling out of the EAC.<\/p>\n
Its minister for EAC Affairs, Mr Samuel Sitta, is reported to have told a charged Parliament in Dodoma that Dar would not wait for a \u201cdivorce certificate\u201d from Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, but would \u201cshoot before we are shot.\u201d<\/p>\n
The minister spoke on the same day Presidents Kenyatta, Kagame, Museveni and Salva Kiir of South Sudan signed a host of protocols and agreements in Kigali, including free movement of goods and persons, infrastructural development and transformation into a single Customs Union.<\/p>\n
Daily Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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