{{The exclusion of Burundi and Tanzania in recent meetings between 3 of the 5 countries forming the East African community, including Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda, was referred to the output of a meeting in Rwanda between Kenyan senators and the president of the Rwandan Senate.}}
The issue came-up during a meeting held in Kigali between four Kenyan senators and the president of the Rwandan Senate, Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuliryayo.
Burundi and Tanzania accuse the other three EAC member states (coalition of the willing) of sidelining them after the 3 countries organized two meetings on development projects.
Mutahi Kagwe, a Kenyan senator present at the meeting said that no country in the East African Community has been rejected.
However, he said that sometimes there is a need to move at a higher speed so that all member states are expected to work harder to move at the pace of others.
Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuliryayo says that during this meeting, they decided that development projects that have come out of these meetings, with Burundi and Tanzania have not been invited will be implemented by all countries in the community without exception this time.
He added that the agreements of the East African community provide the same rights for all countries of this community.
It ensures that some of these countries wanted to accelerate the implementation of development projects in the community and mentioned that there was no exclusion.
The visit by Kenyan senators in Rwanda is part of a series of planned visits in the countries of the East African community.
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