A wide aura of society here are locking horns over it, endless regional technocrats using their elitists clout to demonize it ,ready to be martyred than live to see it integrate and are leaving no chance to discredit an already bruised East African Marshall plan.
Whether it should materialize all reach a sound plan to be able to take off is a matter of time if not buried. Countless ill fated plans to unleash dirt are waiting to take hold and as such use it as litmus to discredit the regional block setting.
What has been happening in recent times chances on many opponents to strike into action, take an example of the accusations by a junior Tanzanian legislator on the secret negotiations of the EPA a European business arrangement with the Tanzanian northern kneighbour without the knowledge of other east African stake holders.
The continuous agitation by media fraternity and other stakeholders on the Tanzanian side that the equally “oversized partners” to the east African pact are about to populate its streets with uncalled for migrant workers who will as result bring the indigenous Tanzanians would be employees to their knees.
Kenyans have also proved aggressive on the business front, thought to be arrogant by a sizable number of folks as mercilessly pursuing their ambitions to the detriment of their Kneighbours. Mostly likely like pouncing on the unused chunks of land lying Idol in Tanzania.
The Ugandans are have however a softer side in the view of the ordinary Tanzanians but don’t score high on the hospitality rating. The Rwandese and Burundians are worse of in trading guns considering their ease to lay hands on cheaper guns and have only been dwarfed by Kenyans recently in the spate of armed robberies.
For the moment those are the short term problematic misfortunes which seem to have bogged down our brotherly long term friendship that spans centuries back in time.
Joint projects from the defunct east African federation are still eye sores and resuscitate those vivid memories when we had to go own directions are still fresh. What we discovered afterwards is the first federation was not based on all stake holder efforts, involving people from all layers of society so to say. This time round its most likely going to be all different as Governments are treading cautiously including having joint Consensus.
Sometimes Consensus is not the best solution as some people don’t seem to know what’s good for them in particular times or situations and therefore need to have their economic compass streamlined only to discover that it was right for them though against it.
Basing on established facts, we can achieve rapid expansion economically, intellectually or otherwise.
Coherent education systems with sound joint research are the direction and this lowers the cost of going it alone in almost all behemotic projects like utilities name it.
The intensity of acquisition utilization and dissemination of knowledge will be such that it crosses borders and resource utilization is harmonized. A kind of boiling pot of activities blended with fine tuned ideas.
The job market would not seek to hire expatriates from afar as our regional grown would even make it more reasonable as they spend regionally. Their spending would bring up a cyclical way of doing things like reinvestments in regional provident funds, money markets etc which are realizing cross listings, Investment fund mobilization can be done here with even huge saving and spending power.
All countries have energy research projects with potential for various forms of deposits ranging from oil to natural gas ready for exploitation. A cheaper oil regime as subsidiary as it could be within these borders makes sense to regional business.
This will lower energy costs and create the region more low production efficiency boosting our export and manufacturing base.
The Labour need dynamics would allow for companies not to shift base to Kenya as there are Kenyans working in Tanzania and Uganda and those Kenyans working here have a leaf to share with Tanzanians in form of Know –how, not a bad approach in a long run.
A large market spanning east Africa would imply a single tax regime and ruling our fluctuations in investment and transnational transactions making goods cheaper thus boosting consumption. This would impact on production positively either way.
Competitive advantages for all countries have varied whether conditions fit for differing goods production so will be self sufficient.
It’s not all so rosy but neither is as damn bad as many want us to believe .he who dares cannot be blamed if they succeed.
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