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The two chambers of Rwanda’s Parliament have approved a bill to legitimise Rwanda’s recent conformity to the East Africa Community. The Chamber of Deputies conceded the draft law on Friday and the Senate voted for it on Monday.

The Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, Paul Kagame and Pierre Nkurunziza respectively, signed the EAC Accession Treaty in Kampala, Uganda, on June 18 that ushered their countries into the regional bloc.

Rosemary Ruseminari, the State Minister for Cooperation, was in both House chambers to support the bill. She put emphasis on the advantages Rwanda would acquire as a consequence of its accession into the regional bloc that originally embraced only three countries.

However, the MPs are hitherto to study the details of the EAC treaty closely, a task to be done within 12 months as mandated by the existing constitution.

Rosemary also noted that the East African Community would advance regional security, collaboration, liberty of movement of people and labour in member states. Concerning the EAC Political Federations scheduled for 2013, she called on the MP’s to entrust their time to issues pertaining to the community.