Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has proposed the elimination of boundaries that form different countries in East Africa in a bid to form one government.
Speaking during his two day state visit in Nairobi, President Museveni said that there should be a unification of East African states into a federation to enhance relations among nations in the region.
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According to Museveni, the failure to form the East African Federation in 1963 is one of the major reasons for the problems that the region is currently facing and that the region could have made tremendous strides.
Instances such as the reign of Idi Amin Dada in Uganda and the genocide in Rwanda is some of the problems that the unification of countries in the region could have avoided by creating one government of East Africa.
“Apart from economic integration for prosperity, we need to address the issue of security. The only way we can do it is through political integration. In the case of East Africa, our main target is one authority, one government for East Africa.”
The discussion to unite East African countries into one federation government has been in the shadows for a while with Museveni being in the forefront in championing for the establishment of this idea.
Previous East African Community Cabinet Secretary, Rebecca Miano, disclosed plans for a confederation as a precursor to full federation with proposal aiming to enhance the authority of the federal government over member states.
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According to the structure, the federation of East African states will be formed like Kenya’s county governments where one country produces a President while the others produce Governors answerable to the region president.