The engineers from Kigali are ready to sign the regional Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) that will give them a leeway to ply their profession in East African Community states of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya.

Rwanda currently cannot practice in Uganda, Tanzania or Kenya after missing out on the singing of the regional agreement in 2012 over lack of professional conformity. Other engineers who can not work in Uganda are from Burundi.

Rwandan and Burundian engineers were supposed to first establish professional conformity assessments and the necessary legal and institutional framework for the engineering profession, before signing the MRA.

But now the Rwandan engineers are ready and willing to sign the mutual recognition agreement according to Eng. Dismas Nkubana, the chairperson of Rwanda Engineering council (REC).

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