Without the EPA, Kenya was the only one of the five EAC countries that was going to have to pay European import duties on flowers and other products.
The other four countries, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda were already exempt from European import duties as they were categorised as “least developed countries”.
Southern African Development Community (SADC) also questioned why Kenya should complain yet she did not support outgoing AUC Chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma at the time of her nomination.
It is said Kenya supported Jean Ping of Gabon to secure a position for Kenya’s Erastus Mwencha who was elected Vice Chair.
Many Kenyans still question why Mwencha, Kenya’s seniormost diplomat at the AU, was never picked by Kenya.
With South Africa’s decision to pull out of the ICC, many kenyans had been made to believe that amounted to endorsing Kenya which had toyed with the idea of continental mass walkout from the ICC. But even this was not to be as Kenya the pullout from ICC took a backseat soon after President Uhuru and his Deputy ended their cases with the court.
Kenya, it is said, has always surprised other African countries by being the first to clear its financial dues to the Hague-based court
When he visited Kenya in October last year, South African President Jacob Zuma remained tight-lipped about his country’s commitment to back Amina despite a State House spin he had made the commitment.
At the AU, South Africa stuck with a fellow regional candidate, Botswana’s Venson-Moito.
Museveni was Uhuru’s foremost supporter as he fought off the ICC charges.
However, the camaraderie appear to have ended after Uganda disowned a deal to export its oil through Kenya and instead chose to do so via a pipeline through Tanzania.
This now means that Jubilee has lost all its regional allies.
Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli is a close friend of Opposition Chief Raila Odinga, a fact Jubilee insiders are uncomfortable with.
In public, Uganda has of course denied reports that it abandoned Amina.
“Uganda wishes to state categorically that our support to the candidature of Amina before and during elections was unequivocal,” Uganda’s foreign Affairs said
President Yoweri Museveni, the statement said, backed Amina because of the close bilateral ties Kampala shares with Nairobi.
“Uganda wishes to reassure the government and the people of Kenya, and Amina in particular, that we remain a reliable ally and partner given our warm and close relations and our commitment to the EAC integration,” the statement read.
But it has emerged that the Amira Elfadil of Sudan was the only official East African elected AUC official in the Monday elections.
Amira was elected Commissioner for Social Affairs.
Others are Chergi Ismail, Peace and Security from Algeria, Samate Cessouma, Political Affairs (Burkina-Faso), Abouzeid Amani, Infrastrucuture and Energy (Egypt) and Sacko Josefa of Angola.
Deputy AUC Chair went to Ghana’s Thomas Kwesi and the rotational AU chair was taken by Guinea’s Head of State Alpha Conde.
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