Uganda Representative to EALA Lydia Wanyoto Mutende

She said that the assembly passed 122 million US dollars compared to 77million US dollars that the community passed for the last financial year.

Wanyoto said that the major priority for the community will be the implementation of the East African Community Market Protocol, for which over 1O million US dollars have been provided.

She says that the protocol has four major pillars and this puts it at the fore front. She says that the pillars include free movement of people, free movement and establishment, land and education and services.

Other priorities to be focused on include the conclusion of the east African community monetary union protocol, deepening co-operation in defense and political matters, promotion of agriculture and food security and implementation of climate change action plan among others.

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Uganda Representative to EALA Lydia Wanyoto Mutende

This comes hardly a week after the budget speech for the community was delivered to the East African Legislative Assembly on 27th May 2010 by the Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of the East African
Community, Diodorus Buberwa Kamala under the theme “Operationalizing the common market and laying the foundation for a monetary union”

A representative of Uganda on the assembly Lydia Wanyoto Mutende has told journalists at Parliament that she is glad that the budget for the financial year 2010/2011 critically deals with many of the aspects
that the assembly had suggested that the budget deals with.

Wanyoto says for instance the budget closely deals with aspects that concern the employment of the youth and women entrepreneurs unlike the previous budgets which always neglected the plight of the women and youths in East Africa.

The Chairman of EALA Uganda Chapter Mike Sebalu says unlike previous budgets which had huge monetary allocations on conferences and trips for ministers, this year’s budget such expenditures on the welfare of ministers has been curtailed.

Sebalu says however the budget for the 2010/2011 financial year has focused more on the needs of the common man like labor mobility which is a positive development for the economy of the community.

By Zacharia Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media

Also see East Africa Parliament Passes EAC budget estimates for 2010/2011 financial year

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