{"id":28363,"date":"2016-09-06T02:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T02:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/economic-competition-delaying-eac-integration-mps\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T02:31:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T02:31:21","slug":"economic-competition-delaying-eac-integration-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/economic-competition-delaying-eac-integration-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic competition delaying EAC integration -MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Fear of economic competition among countries is one of the barriers to East Africa Community integration.}<\/p>\n<p>Members of the National Assembly committee on regional integration said some countries in the region are at a \u201clower production level\u201d than others.<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s vice chair Christopher Nakuleu said the EAC member states need to address the issue of economic status of the countries to speed up integration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the integration was introduced, countries were operating on different production levels. For instance the GDP of Burundi is 11 times less than Kenya. This disparity poses a major challenge,\u201d Mr Nakuleu said.<\/p>\n<p>They observed that past perceptions that led to collapse of East Africa community in 1977 have also contributed to lack of commitment by some member states to the integration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRe-introduction of East Africa community was meant to encourage competitiveness among member states. This will not only improve regional economy but foster unity,\u201d said the Turkana North MP.<\/p>\n<p>The committee members also accused some countries of derailing the regional incorporation by failing to implement some projects.<\/p>\n<p>They said Kenya is lagging behind in putting up some structures to facilitate integration saying Uganda has completed similar projects.<\/p>\n<p>The committee members were inspecting implementations of cross border projects on the Kenya-Uganda border.<\/p>\n<p>Kisumu County Women Representative Rose Nyamunga challenged member states to educate citizens on benefits of integration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are challenges that are yet to be fully addressed like insecurity. Citizens of most (EAC) countries are ye t to fully embrace the integration due to fear of unknown,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Other MPs present included David Ochieng (Ugenya) and Emmanuel Wangwe (Navakholo).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14802 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nakuleu.jpg\" alt=\"Turkana North MP Christopher Nakuleu. He is among MPs who visited EAC integration projects on the Kenya-Uganda border. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Fear of economic competition among countries is one of the barriers to East Africa Community integration.} Members of the National Assembly committee on regional integration said some countries in the region are at a \u201clower production level\u201d than others. The committee\u2019s vice chair Christopher Nakuleu said the EAC member states need to address the issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28363"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28363"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}