Yayin da kungiyar kasashen gabashin Afirka (EAC) ke shirya dabarun sayar da kasashe biyar abokan huldarta a matsayin wurin yawon bude ido guda, Kenya ta yi kira da a kulla yarjejeniya da Tanzaniya kan bunkasa da bunkasa masana'antu.
A cewar rahotannin manema labarai a nan Laraba, ministan yawon bude ido na kasar Kenya Najib Balala ya bayyana cewa, idan kasashen biyu suka dauki irin wannan matsayi, zai taimaka wajen kawar da “mummunan matsaloli” na tsarin mulki da sauran abubuwan da ke kawo cikas ga hadin gwiwar kan iyaka a fannin da ke da muhimmanci ga ci gaban tattalin arziki. da haɗin kai na yanki.
Yawon shakatawa na kan gaba wajen samun kudaden musanya a kasashen Kenya da Tanzaniya, wadanda tattalin arzikinsu ya kasance mafi girma a tsakanin kasashen kungiyar EAC. Sauran da ke cikin kungiyar sun hada da Burundi da Rwanda da Uganda.
A cikin 2008, Tanzaniya ta sami dalar Amurka biliyan 1.3 daga 642,000 masu yawon shakatawa na kasashen waje don lissafin kashi 17.2 na GDP, yayin da - a cewar Hukumar Kula da Yawon shakatawa ta Kenya (KTB) - Kenya ta samu kusan dalar Amurka miliyan 811 daga kasa da 200,000 masu yawon bude ido duk da illolin da suka haifar da tashe-tashen hankula masu nasaba da zabe a wannan shekarar.
Sakamakon alamun farfadowar tattalin arzikin duniya, bayan da aka samu raguwar masu yawon bude ido na kasashen waje a bara, hukumomi a kasashen biyu sun yi kamfen din kasuwanci mai mahimmanci don jawo hankalin masu yawon bude ido miliyan 3 a tsakanin su a shekara ta 2012.
Abubuwan ƙarfafawa da aka bayar a bangarorin biyu sun haɗa da ragewa kan biza da rangwame akan safa ri da fakitin masauki.
Yunkurin da EAC ta yi na tallata yankin a matsayin wurin yawon bude ido guda yana da matukar muhimmanci biyo bayan sanya hannun da shugabannin al'umma suka yi a watan Nuwamba na shekarar 2009 na ka'idar kasuwar gama-gari ta yankin da ke shirin fara aiki a watan Yuli na wannan shekara.
A halin da ake ciki kuma, babban sakatare a ma'aikatar albarkatun kasa da yawon bude ido ta kasar Tanzaniya Ladislaus Komba, ya ce har yanzu bangarensa bai tattauna batun cancantar kudirin Kenya na yarjejeniyar fahimtar juna kan raya yawon bude ido ba.
"Tanzaniya ta kuduri aniyar tallata yankin a matsayin wurin yawon bude ido daya. Za mu halarci taron jami’an fasaha a mako mai zuwa da kuma taron majalisar ministocin da aka shirya yi a ranar 18 ga Janairu, 2010,” in ji Komba.
