Editor, This would seem a straight forward issue on which consensus should be a slam-dunker. Could the media please explain to us (readers) the grounds on which Dar es Salaam believes prosecutions of cross-border corruption cases should be handled bilaterally, as opposed to tackling them as an East African Community matter?
Editor,This would seem a straight forward issue on which consensus should be a slam-dunker. Could the media please explain to us (readers) the grounds on which Dar es Salaam believes prosecutions of cross-border corruption cases should be handled bilaterally, as opposed to tackling them as an East African Community matter? I – and no doubt many other readers – would honestly like to know why, where it is appropriate; prosecutions wouldn’t be at the Community level.Some of us have always feared that without stepped up efforts to stem, reverse and eradicate graft among the EAC partner states singly and collectively, the EAC integration project train may get derailed on the way.I am sure the Tanzanian delegation had legitimate and genuine reasons to urge for bilateral rather than Community-level prosecutions for cross-border cases of corruption within the Community, but these reasons are not clear.Mwene Kalinda, KigaliReaction to the story, "Regional body wants anti-graft protocol signed” (The New Times, November 6)