Beatrice Kiraso
Beatrice Birungi Kiraso is a Ugandan politician known for her involvement in the political landscape of Uganda and the East African Community (EAC).[1] She has been involved in public service for over two decades as a member of parliament for Kabarole district, the Deputy Secretary General of the East African Community, and as a lecturer at Makerere University [2][3]
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[edit]- Oh yes, what we have so far taken might not look like big strides, but there is certainly a lot of progress. I am confident that the region will not backtrack on some of these important processes because we have defined the content and highlighted their centrality in the integration process.
- Political Federation is provided for in the Treaty as the ultimate goal of this integration process. The way it is put is just like an item will drop (like manna) from above, and then we will open our eyes to find ourselves in a Political Federation. The pain of the process has not been envisaged.
- I have had the unenviable duty to bring to the fore those key aspects of political governance that need to be harmonised, those that Partner States may have to discard, best practices that they will inevitably have to adopt and more importantly, the fact that they will have to give up some of their sovereignty and pool it at the centre.
- I say unenviable maybe because I am looking at it through the lenses of my ambitions and what I think we have attained. Outsiders usually see changes better because they evaluate after a period.
- My office handles sectors that would otherwise be a protected preserve of the sovereign countries.
- ‘EAC political integration is on right course’
- I do not want to take undue credit for work that we have done as a team. My biggest strength comes from the conviction about the overall benefits of integration and eventually the East African Federation.