Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>With very limited contributions from Partner States to the East African Community (EAC), which are even in some cases delayed or not remitted, the realisation of deeper and wider regional integration is questionable, Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) have said.<\/p>\nTo tackle the issue, they urged the region to expedite sanctions against Partner States who do not honour their contributions to the bloc.<\/p>\n
While presenting the report on an analysis of EAC budget for the 2023\/2024 fiscal year during an EALA plenary session in Tanzania on June 22, MP Kennedy Ayason Mukulia, Chairperson of EALA\u2019s Committee on General Purpose, said the Committee noted that no effort has been made to sanction the non-compliant Partner States in terms of paying contributions to the bloc\u2019s initiatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the years, the Assembly has passed several resolutions urging the Council of Ministers to invoke the relevant Treaty provisions to sanction the Partner States that have failed to meet their financial obligations to the Community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOwing to delayed or non-remittance of funds by some Partner States, the Community continues to make unrealistic budgets with most of the programmes remaining unimplemented at the end of each financial year,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n
Whereas the Committee was informed that the Council of Ministers embarked on drafting a schedule of sanctions against non-compliant Partner States in 2020, Mukulia said, \u201cthis exercise is taking long to finalise.\u201d<\/p>\n
A concern that must be urgently addressed<\/p>\n
So far, South Sudan is the EAC Partner State that owes more to the bloc \u2013 a whopping $22 million in arrears \u2013 without factoring in more than $7.3 million contribution that it has not yet paid for the current fiscal year which will end on June 30, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Another Partner State in arrears is Burundi, with slightly over $5 million unpaid contribution to EAC before the current fiscal year, the report showed.<\/p>\n
MP George Stephen Odongo from Uganda, said, \u201cThe Republic of South Sudan, particularly Government, needs to take the functions of the Assembly very seriously, because as we speak, this budget will be entering the second year and the Republic of South Sudan is still indebted and has zero contribution in the previous budget.<\/p>\n
Odongo requested EAC to \u201cconsider activating provision of the Treaty for suspension of members that are not contributing to the Community.\u201d<\/p>\n
If all EAC Partner States fully paid their contributions as is the case with Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda, at least the region would have met its budget to a greater extent, Odongo pointed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think in the future we should send a very strong signal, that if you have not made your contribution, please don\u2019t apply for any position of the Community because we don\u2019t have resources to pay you,\u201d he suggested.<\/p>\n
MP Woda Jeremiah from South Sudan said, \u201cI want to urge my country to really commit to the contribution because in fourth EALA \u2014 the last summit \u2014 the country had committed to pay $15 million and there was a waiver which was given on condition this financial year should be paid, and we are left with some days.<\/p>\n
MP Fatuma Ndangiza from Rwanda said, \u201cThe history is that it\u2019s been mainly a few countries that have been paying their remittances. I want to urge the Council that payment of remittances is an obligation of every Partner State, and they have to put a mechanism in place to ensure that this money is remitted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: The New Times<\/b><\/p>\n
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