Makuza was speaking yesterday during a dinner in honor of EALA members who have been in the tour around the Northern and Central Corridors and concluded their tour in Rwanda yesterday.
Makuza said that the people of EAC expect the community to succeed and produce real opportunities. He said they want countries to demonstrate tangible commitment to unity and to stay together in order to achieve integration in terms of infrastructures and remove all obstacles and barriers from people to do business, to live and work in the region.
“The treaty for the establishment of the community stipulates that the fundamental principles to govern the achievement of the objectives of the community which include mutual trust, peaceful coexistence and got peaceful settlement of disputes and cooperation from mutual benefits,” he said.
“All fundamental principles of the community require unity; unity must be your starting point as you do the important work of passing bills, overseeing implementation of plans in the vision of the community,” he added.
He thanked members for overcoming the disagreements during the recent elections of the assembly’s speaker.
“I salute the resolution to move beyond disagreements you had in the house. It was a normal democratic debate to have. It was more important to move on and focus on the core mandate of the assembly,” he said
Makuza said that the EAC legislative assembly has the mandate to exercise its power and parliamentary diplomacy as the means to move in the right and positive directions, to ensure service delivery and to assure peaceful relations.
“I’m quite confident that the assessment you have completed today was done for the common good of our region in the interests of our population,” he said.
He recommended EALA members to move from the office and go to see what happening on the field.
“You have the legal authority to see what is happening to the ground, I can say even you have the authority to exercise your powers to oversight our respective governments, it is very important to move from the office and to go and see what is happening on the field and you can bring your contribution in a concrete manner without talking about things that you have not witnessed,” he said.
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