Uhuru stay out of EAC chairmanship..

[Geza Ulole]

7 HOURS AGO

Uhuru tipped to take over EAC chair

A planned East African Community summit in Kampala, due next weekend, hangs in the balance after Rwanda reportedly said it is “not interested” in taking up the rotational chair of the regional bloc.

Presidents Yoweri Museveni

,Uhuru Kenyatta, and Paul Kagame after commissioning of berth 19 within the port of Mombasa in this picture taken on 28 August 2013. The leaders reportedly agreed that Kigali forfeits its turn this year in favour of Kenya to enable newcomer President Uhuru Kenyatta as a timely shot in his arm during the ongoing political and diplomatic lobbying for the deferral of his International Criminal Court trial. PHOTO|LABAN WALLOGA/FILE​

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In Summary

That notwithstanding, secretary-general Richard Sezibera on Friday circulated to member countries a revised summit programme still indicating that President Paul Kagame would take over EAC chairmanship.


TABU BUTAGIRA tbutagira@ug.nationmedia.com
A planned East African Community summit in Kampala, due next weekend, hangs in the balance after Rwanda reportedly said it is “not interested” in taking up the rotational chair of the regional bloc.

Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, confirmed late on Friday that a crowded domestic schedule prompted discussions to have another country hold the rotational chair.

President Paul Kagame was due to assume the community’s chairmanship during the heads of state summit in Kampala, due next Saturday.

“Yes, there have been consultations to skip Rwanda; the coming year is a busy time for Rwanda, with multiple activities related to the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the genocide and 20 years of liberation,” said Ms Mushikiwabo, also the government spokesperson.

“The matter will be decided upon by the heads of state during their [November 30] summit.”

Sources said Rwanda’s officials in the ministry responsible for the community affairs communicated the surprise decision, hours to the start of preliminary meetings for the summit, throwing organisers off-balance.

However, Mr Manoah Esipisu, Kenya’s State House spokesperson, said he was not aware of the development.

Rwanda’s decision reportedly followed a quiet, high-level understanding between the region’s “coalition of the willing” countries – Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda – whose presidents over the past year held three back-to-back summits on, among other things, infrastructure and regional integration issues.

The leaders reportedly agreed that Kigali forfeits its turn this year in favour of Kenya to enable newcomer President Uhuru Kenyatta as a timely shot in his arm during the ongoing political and diplomatic lobbying for the deferral of his International Criminal Court trial.

Regional leaders are gambling that giving Mr Kenyatta chair of a group of five countries, with more than 134 million people, would politically insulate him against the West “that would not want to plunge a region into chaos”.

That notwithstanding, secretary-general Richard Sezibera on Friday circulated to member countries a revised summit programme still indicating that President Paul Kagame would take over EAC chairmanship.

Other sources suggested that Rwanda was reluctant to head the bloc at the height of its diplomatic spat with Tanzania, blamed for the latter’s apparent isolation by the neighbours.

Besides underlining the wedge between Kigali and Dar es Salaam, the development would also complicate admission of new applicants.
Uhuru tipped to take over EAC chair - Politics - nation.co.ke

MY TAKE
This is an attempt to cohere the block into what UK termed to be a personal challenge at ICC! The other member states should resist from allowing the block falling into a trap of being dysfunctional by being used politically to spearhead GOK attempts to stop justice dispensation at the Hague! Unfortunately the EAC Secretary General is so weak as he is so loyal to Kagame to an extent of forgetting his main role is to protect the block's existence and not engaging the block to individual members internal politics. ​

 

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A planned East African Community summit in Kampala, due next weekend, hangs in the balance after Rwanda reportedly said it is “not interested” in taking up the rotational chair of the regional bloc.

Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, confirmed late on Friday that a crowded domestic schedule prompted discussions to have another country hold the rotational chair.

President Paul Kagame was due to assume the community’s chairmanship during the heads of state summit in Kampala, due next Saturday.

“Yes, there have been consultations to skip Rwanda; the coming year is a busy time for Rwanda, with multiple activities related to the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the genocide and 20 years of liberation,” said Ms Mushikiwabo, also the government spokesperson.

“The matter will be decided upon by the heads of state during their [November 30] summit.”

Sources said Rwanda’s officials in the ministry responsible for the community affairs communicated the surprise decision, hours to the start of preliminary meetings for the summit, throwing organisers off-balance.

However, Mr Manoah Esipisu, Kenya’s State House spokesperson, said he was not aware of the development.

Rwanda’s decision reportedly followed a quiet, high-level understanding between the region’s “coalition of the willing” countries – Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda – whose presidents over the past year held three back-to-back summits on, among other things, infrastructure and regional integration issues.

The leaders reportedly agreed that Kigali forfeits its turn this year in favour of Kenya to enable newcomer President Uhuru Kenyatta as a timely shot in his arm during the ongoing political and diplomatic lobbying for the deferral of his International Criminal Court trial.

Regional leaders are gambling that giving Mr Kenyatta chair of a group of five countries, with more than 134 million people, would politically insulate him against the West “that would not want to plunge a region into chaos”.

That notwithstanding, secretary-general Richard Sezibera on Friday circulated to member countries a revised summit programme still indicating that President Paul Kagame would take over EAC chairmanship.

Other sources suggested that Rwanda was reluctant to head the bloc at the height of its diplomatic spat with Tanzania, blamed for the latter’s apparent isolation by the neighbours.

Besides underlining the wedge between Kigali and Dar es Salaam, the development would also complicate admission of new applicants.

--daily nation

 

[Kigogo]

kagame yuko very serious na mambo yake..i love you Mr.President

 

[Dhuks]

start your lobbying, your ideas will be taken on board

 

[Koborer]

The Chairmanship is a rotating thing, why would Uhuru shy away from it? This has nothing to do with ICC. It is now Kenya's turn. Your thoughts are irrelevant here.

 

[August]

hii inawezekana ikawa ni mikakatiya kukwepa icc, baada ya mkakati wa westgate

 

[JokaKuu]

The Chairmanship is a rotating thing, why would Uhuru shy away from it? This has nothing to do with ICC. It is now Kenya's turn. Your thoughts are irrelevant here.

..Tanzania and Burundi come before Kenya.

..I think with the soured diplomatic relations btn Tz and Rw, Burundi is the safest choice for EAC chairmanship.

..Uhuru Kenyatta has too much on his plate, especially the security situation in Kenya as well as his ICC case.

..Yes, this has a lot to do with ICC. Kenyatta alisema ICC process inamzuia kutekeleza majukumu ya uraisi wa Kenya. The same argument might be true with EAC. There is a risk here that, President Kenyatta, once he has assumed EAC chairmanship, will claim that the ICC case is impeding him from carrying out his duties as the chairman of EAC. Halafu atataka EAC imsaidie kukwepa ICC.

..If I could borrow the words of former UNSG Koffi Annan; electing ICC inductee into EAC highest office has consequences.

Kiranga, Jasusi, Nguruvi3, Mchambuzi

 

[Nguruvi3]

..Tanzania and Burundi come before Kenya.

..I think with the soured diplomatic relations btn Tz and Rw, Burundi is the safest choice for EAC chairmanship.

..Uhuru Kenyatta has too much on his plate, especially the security situation in Kenya as well as his ICC case.

..Yes, this has a lot to do with ICC. Kenyatta alisema ICC process inamzuia kutekeleza majukumu ya uraisi wa Kenya. The same argument might be true with EAC. There is a risk here that, President Kenyatta, once he has assumed EAC chairmanship, will claim that the ICC case to impeding him from carrying out his duties as the chairman of EAC. Halafu atataka EAC imsaidie kukwepa ICC.

..If I could borrow the words of former UNSG Koffi Annan; electing ICC inductee into EAC highest office has consequences.

Kiranga, Jasusi, Nguruvi3, Mchambuzi

Nadhani Rwanda inajiondoa kwa mambo kadha
1. Kwamba uwepo wake na mzozo na TZ unaweza kuleta tatizo katika uongozi
2. Ili kutekeleza mkakati wake uliosemwa wa kujiondoa EAC. Imesemwa kuwa wana mapango wa kurudi OCAS (Kama nipo sahihi)
3. Kwa Uhuru makakati unaonekana kuwa mgumu kutumia 'human shield' ya watu milioni 134. Baraza la usalama kukataa ombi lao ilikuwa pigo kubwa. Pamoja na hayo uchanga na changamoto za EA kwasasa naona Uhuru anasita.

Tatizo kubwa lipo kwa Richard Sezibera. Amesahau uongozi anamsikiliza Kagame, mambo ni hivyo kuliko wakati mwingine wowote wa jumuiya.

Ikumbukwe ni Rwanda ndio walishinikiza suala la rotation.

 

[Kiranga]

Tatizo Waafrika tumezidi kuiga.

EAC na AU charters vyote vimeiga sana mambo kutoka Ulaya EEC/ EU, far and above the bedrock Westphalian model would have allowed for.

AU ilivyoanzishwa nilikuwa naongea na mabalozi influential wa Afrika hapo UN, in a non-threatening confidential/ private capacity, they took much pride in the fact that they were copycats of EU. As if that is some foolproof guarantee to not fail.

This was still being touted as late as "The Maputo Plan of Action", where I was reminded that "The War on Terror" was overrated and food (or more precisely, lack of food) was a security issue, and in fact a bigger terror to a considerably bigger population of the earth than "The War On Terror" purports!

Sasa ulaya EEC/EU vinakufa kifo cha polepole, Waafrika waliogezea majibu bila ku solve equations kwa kuangalia mazingira yao wenyewe hawajui kwamba hata kama wamepatia kugezea sawa, walichogezea ndiyo jibu sahihi.

Maana sio tu inawezekana mtihani waliopewa wao ni tofauti na mtihani waliopewa hao waliowagezea.

Bali pia inawezekana hao waliowagezea wamekosea majibu in the first place kiasi kwamba hata kama mtihani ni mmoja, njia na jibu vililogezwa si sahihi.

 

[mafutamingi]

You are wrong - it is not Kenya's turn. Uganda (M7) took over from Kenya Kibaki and after Ug it was going to be Rwanda's turn and then TZ

 

[Jammu Africa]

MY TAKE
This is an attempt to cohere the block into what UK termed to be a personal challenge at ICC! The other member states should resist from allowing the block falling into a trap of being dysfunctional by being used politically to spearhead GOK attempts to stop justice dispensation at the Hague! Unfortunately the EAC Secretary General is so weak as he is so loyal to Kagame to an extent of forgetting his main role is to protect the block's existence and not engaging the block to individual members internal politics.

I wonder which states the author of this thread is referring to,,, for it is them,,,who
made him the chairman.

To make it,,even,,sweeter,,,,the chairmanship was handed to,,,Uhuru,,before the
presidents of Tanzania and Burundi.

Things are happening very fast,,,,many cannot keep up with them,,,,even
the sponsors,,,,the Americans and British,, have stopped that song of,,eti
justice,,ICC,,,etc,,and are now cooperating with Uhuru,,,with a vindio
link:smile-big:.

Wacheni kujisumbua,,,,bure,,jameni,,,,,,tulieni na muenjoy boli,,kwani
hata bado,,kuanza.