Richard
Platinum Member
- Oct 23, 2006
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Recently, there have been incidents where citizens from member countries have been traveling into countries territories to visit or for leisure and staying in hotels.
Some citizens have been involved in political exchange activities and also attending court proceedings in member states. The particular member states involved include Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania where their citizens particularly political and human rights activists have been traveling as observers to witness what is happening in their member countries.
The East African Community (EAC) has its values and integration pillars which make it unique it its form to stand out among other blocs within the continent. One of the benefits of these pillars is the introduction of East African Passport which allows their citizens to travel freely within the bloc which also means it is visa free.
So, when it comes to the situation whereby the citizen has to be a subject to immigration control, there should be a genuine reasons why the control is applies to a particular person. There could be a number of reasons that perhaps a person is wanted, or has committed a crime in one of the members countries, the immigration control is not necessary when some information is coming regarding the particular person without first applied and exercise the free of movement.
That free of movements means the person should be allowed in the country and then at the airport or the the point of arrest whether in the hotel or restaurant and the his/her rights read before they are deported back to member state they come from.
This particular short article is to urge the EAC member states especially members of EAC parliament to bring forward the emergency motion which will discuss the current situation of citizens being arrested in member countries and detained not only to be tortured but to suffer injuries. The Immigration rules should be added in EAC priorities 2022-2026.
The citizens from member states should be deported back to member states when they are found to have broken the immigration rules and also they should be banned for number of years.
The citizens of member states should not be subjected to get arrested, detained and at times tortured while they in custody.
Some citizens have been involved in political exchange activities and also attending court proceedings in member states. The particular member states involved include Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania where their citizens particularly political and human rights activists have been traveling as observers to witness what is happening in their member countries.
The East African Community (EAC) has its values and integration pillars which make it unique it its form to stand out among other blocs within the continent. One of the benefits of these pillars is the introduction of East African Passport which allows their citizens to travel freely within the bloc which also means it is visa free.
So, when it comes to the situation whereby the citizen has to be a subject to immigration control, there should be a genuine reasons why the control is applies to a particular person. There could be a number of reasons that perhaps a person is wanted, or has committed a crime in one of the members countries, the immigration control is not necessary when some information is coming regarding the particular person without first applied and exercise the free of movement.
That free of movements means the person should be allowed in the country and then at the airport or the the point of arrest whether in the hotel or restaurant and the his/her rights read before they are deported back to member state they come from.
This particular short article is to urge the EAC member states especially members of EAC parliament to bring forward the emergency motion which will discuss the current situation of citizens being arrested in member countries and detained not only to be tortured but to suffer injuries. The Immigration rules should be added in EAC priorities 2022-2026.
The citizens from member states should be deported back to member states when they are found to have broken the immigration rules and also they should be banned for number of years.
The citizens of member states should not be subjected to get arrested, detained and at times tortured while they in custody.