THE East African Business Council (EABC) has elected Angelina Ngalula, the chairperson of the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF), as its new chairperson.

Outgoing East African Business Council chairperson Nick Nesbit (L) congratulates Angelina Ngalula after her election as his successor at a meeting held yesterday in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Photo: Guardian Correspondent

The business leader was unanimously elected during the EABC 22nd annual general meeting in Kigali to serve until mid-2024, taking over from Nicholas Nesbitt of Kenya who was elected in 2018, the first time a woman has been elected to head the regional body.

EABC, a regional apex for private sector associations for the East African Community member states, was established in 1997 to voice private sector interests in the course of regional integration.

Grateful at her election, she expressed appreciation for the EABC executive committee, promising to serve the institution with competence and dedication.

An EABC statement said that Ngalula pledged to work with the board and the EAC secretariat to push an open door policy to make the EAC an actual free trade region, and to spread out the fruits of EAC integration.

Similarly, agri-business specialist Dr Jacqueline Mkindi was elected as EABC board member, to add to her role as TAHA Fresh Handling Ltd chairperson.

A champion of the multi-million dollar horticultural industry, she chairs the Agriculture Council of Tanzania (ACT) and is markedly at the forefront of policy analysis and business negotiations.

Other Tanzanian EABC board members are Paul Makanza, board chairperson for the Tanzania Cigarette Co., a listed firm, and Ali Suleiman Amour, heading the Zanzibar National Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (ZNCCIA).

From Burundi the EABC elected Muzaneza Antoine of the Burundi Traders Association (ACOBU) as among the vice chairmen, Juvénal Sakubu of EIS-EKA Group, Delphin Kaze of KAGE and Amelie Ninganza of KHS Co. Ltd.

EABC board members from Kenya are Jas Bedi of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance as vice chairman, Emily Waita of the Coca-Cola Group in sub-Saharan Africa, Muhoho Kenyatta of Brookside Dairy Ltd and Mucai Kinyiha from the Kenya Association of Manufacturers.

For Rwanda, those joining the EABC board are Dennis Karera of Kigali Heights, endorsed vice-chairman, John-Bosco Rusagara of Intraspeed Ltd, Emmanuel Nkusi of the Bank of Kigali, and Linda Kalimba from Trinity Lawyers.

EABC board members from Uganda are Simon Kaheru of the Uganda Manufacturers Association who was endorsed as vice chairman, Stuart Mwesigwa of Roofings Group, Businge Rwabwogo of Mukwano Industries (U) Ltd, and Pheona Nabaasa Wall of the Uganda Law Society.

The meeting also conferred Nesbitto with an outstanding achievement award in recognition of his stewardship of the EABC vision of a borderless East Africa for business and investment, whose mission is to promote sustainable private sector-driven growth in the sub-region, the statement added.

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