KICUKIRO - Rwanda’s Steven Seka has become the first president of the East African Community Students Union (EACSU).
He was elected for a one-year term recently during the regional students’ summit held at the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in Kigali.

Seka who is a student at the Adventist University of Kigali (Unilak) polled 122 votes to beat Uganda Christian University’s Alex Waiswa with 14 votes to the post.

Compatriot Geoffrey Gasasira, from the National University of Rwanda (NUR), was elected vice president, while Genevieve Mahoro, another Rwandan, is the deputy speaker of EACSU.

EACSU is the umbrella association for students from Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. 

The meeting, which attracted fifty delegates from each of the countries, was also used to launch the EASCU permanent secretariat, the association’s website and magazine.

President Paul Kagame’s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region Ambassador Richard Sezibera called on the students to strengthen and consolidate the cultural, social, political, economic and traditional ties between the peoples of the member states.

He observed that there was still need to build mutual trust among East Africans based on political will so as to promote sovereign equality.

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