East Africa’s industrial landscape is at the centre of ongoing reforms designed to expedite intra-African trade and unify a stable, competitive and prosperous haven for trade and investment
Speeding up integration EAC chief’s top priority
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Speeding up integration EAC chief’s top priority
NEWLY appointed East African Community (EAC) Secretary General Dr Peter Mathuki, a Kenyan national, has kicked the ground running with the theme of speeding up the bloc’s integration.
At an evening reception organized here by the private sector at the weekend, Dr Mathuki said he will focus on achieving ease of doing business in line with the common market protocol.
The EAC is already a customs union and in principle geared to establishing a common market, and has also explored ways of forming a monetary union, the last format having died in 1966 paving the way for the creation of independent central banks in the region.
Kenya s Peter Mathuki officially takes over as EAC secretary-general The Citizen Arusha, Dr Peter Mathuki, a former member of the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) from Kenya, has officially taken over as the secretary-general of the East African Community (EAC) for the next five years. Dr Mathuki is the sixth EAC secretary-general and the second from Kenya, the first one being Francis Muthaura, who served from 1996 to 2001. The others Nuwe Amanya Mushega from Uganda (2001-2006), Tanzania’s Juma Mwapachu (2006-2011), Richard Sezibera from Rwanda (2011-2016) and Burundi’s Liberat Mfumukeko (2016-2021). The handing over ceremony on Friday was preceded by a closed session with all the top EAC executives. Dr Mathuki, formerly the executive director of the East African Business Council (EABC), succeeds Liberat Mfumukeko of Burundi, who service from April 25, 2016. He will hold the position for five years - the tenure of the EAC chief executive officer is a f