TANZANIA OFFICIALLY ISOLATED FROM EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY (EAC)

EVENTUALLY Tanzania officially isolated by the member states of the East African Community (EAC ), in the form of Political Federation that will govern those countries .

Already presidents of those countries, Paul Kagame of Rwanda , Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and Pierre Nkurunzinza of Burundi have reached the agreement to initiate the process of writing a draft of the Constitution of Political Federation of the member states of the EAC, without involving Tanzania .

Minister of Local Government of Rwanda, James Musoni, is quoted by the press of the country stating that an agreement on the introduction of the process of writing a draft of the Constitution of the East African Federation, was reached on September 12 this year, in Kampala and the presidents of Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda and recently the President of Burundi, who was invited to attend the conference and failed, and now has confirmed its involvement in the new federation .

The Sunday Times newspaper of Rwanda, quoted Minister Musoni presidents of those countries that have agreed to complete the draft within a short time.

Musoni who admitted participating in the meeting of these presidents featured also senior officials of these countries except Tanzania, said the decision was reached at the meeting, which is the second to be held, is one of the directions of the decision made at the first meeting held also in Kampala.

"We agreed on the legal rules and the entire program will guide us to get the Draft Constitution that will govern political federation," said Mr. Musoni.

He described the creation of a special task force known as in the name of High Level Task Force ( HLTF ), which extends to a wide variety of experts who wrote the draft for the same kind of organized program protocol common market of the East African Community .

Musoni said ministers of the member countries were scheduled to address the federation, are expected to describe the direction of the success of the program in another meeting scheduled for late October in Kigali , Rwanda.

For the first time, Presidents Kagame, Museveni and Kenyatta met to reach an agreement to accelerate the creation of a political confederation for their countries to remove trade barriers and set document identifiers and trade cooperation in line to launch the project for the construction of the docks of the Port of Mombasa.

Mean while, Minister for East African Cooperation Samuel Sitta, when asked about the action of these countries start singling Tanzania towards Political Federation, said the Constitution of the East African Community, Article 7 (e) of the contract allows member states to do something urgent as countries another slow to do so .

Mr. Sitta described TANZANIAN Wednesday that, Tanzania does not allow procedures permit the identification used in all member states, because it must be a citizen of a member country entered Tanzania follow immigration procedures .

He said despite the measures taken by member states of the EAC to isolate Tanzania in some cases, retain its position and the powerful realize entry on Political Federation with issues of tariffs, a common market and a single currency, are not implemented.

"That's the position of Tanzania, these four items were still incomplete, its use din't go according to the consensus of all countries now rush of Political Federation, let them go because the Constitution allows them to have their own private agenda .

" We do not see a solution in the matter, it is difficult to begin to solve community problems at the moment as it is difficult to solve the problems of the Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

" If you look now we are fighting to develop the Union and Zanzibar, this all four countries how is going to be? Resources are from other countries, so in terms of products, because we can not get to the federation before we finished this embargo others," said Mr. Sitta.

In respond to this matter, Mr. Sitta also explained that Tanzania government wrote a letters to cabinet secretariat member states of the East African Community, in complaining that some things are run in secrecy with some of country members in the community .

He said the letter was received in the cabinet meeting held on August 28 this year, in Arusha, seeking disclosure of characters going to involve the community in all countries.

In addition, Sitta explained that while the if letter was handed over to the Secretariat, whose leaders have agreed to begin the process of drafting of the Constitution of Political Federation, they should recognize that the Constitution could not be realized would be invalid because it was not decided by its citizens of that country, but the decide by the leaders of that country.