Ruto: Possibility of East African political federation no longer idle dream
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni welcomes Kenya’s President William Ruto at State House Uganda for the county's 60th independence day celebrations. Ruto is openly pushing for the establishment of the East African Federation. PHOTO | REBECCA NDUKU
Kenyan President William Ruto is openly pushing for the establishment of the East African Federation, endorsing an ambitious political formation that has been elusive and mostly avoided by his predecessors but one that hopes to guarantee a big market for regional goods and services and ensure strategic security.
“The community is becoming even more tightly connected with infrastructure systems criss-crossing the member countries. The possibility of an East African Federation is no longer a wild imagination or an idle dream. It is no longer a matter of if, it is a matter of when,” Ruto said in his Mashujaa Day address on October 20 in Nairobi.
