EA legislative assembly to meet in Nairobi next week
BY LUSEKELO PHILEMON
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) resumes business next week holding its plenary session in Nairobi, Kenya.
According to EALA statement issued here yesterday, the sitting which takes place between September 3 and 14 is the second meeting of the first session of the third Assembly.
Chairperson of the EAC Heads of State Summit and Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, is expected to address the special sitting on September 4, this year.
The 3rd assembly which was inaugurated on June 5, this year is to be presided over by the Speaker, Margaret Nantongo Zziwa.
The Assembly expects to receive reports of the Accounts, Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources, General Purpose, Communications, Trade and Investment, Regional Affairs and Conflict Resolution as well as Legal, Rules and Privileges committees.
EALA will also receive the report of the Committee on Communications, Trade and Investment on Consultation between Inter-Parliamentary bodies on Trade related policies which took place last week in Kigali, Rwanda.
EALA is the legislative organ of the East African Community, whose membership consists of a total of 52, of whom 45 are elected Members (9 from each Partner State) and seven ex-official members (the Ministers responsible for EAC Affairs from the Partner States, the Secretary General of the Community and the Counsel to the Community).
EALA has legislative functions as well as oversight of all East African Community matters. The enactment of legislation of the Community is effected by means of Bills passed by the Assembly and assented to by the Heads of State, and every Bill that has been duly passed and assented to become an Act of the Community and takes precedent over similar legislations in the Partner States.
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