Editor,How are we going to act on Genocide ideology when some of our heads of states don’t seem – or pretend to not care – to know the gravity of what happened to Rwandans? If the East African Community is there to flourish, we need leaders who are accountable, and we don’t need those who think it’s fair to deliberately hurt fellow member states.If we don’t build the region on mutual respect and solid foundation, the East African Community will be like a castle built on sand. If Africans joined hands at the time of 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, then a million innocent lives would have been saved.

Likewise, our brothers and sisters in Congo  are dying every day for the last 20 years and we are sitting there crossing arms. What I know is that EAC countries can jointly work together to stop that, but we have chosen to wait for those we consider as bosses to tell us what to do.  Is Africa really independent? That’s the question.Mwakenya, Kigali, RwandaReaction to the story, "Act on Genocide ideology, Makuza tells EAC leaders”, (The New Times, June 9)