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  NTBs are often justified on four main reasons:  1. To safeguard health, safety, and security of human beings, animals and plants, and  against environmental pollution.  2. To protect home industries and consumers  3. To safeguard national security  4. To safeguard against revenue loss  3.2 Non‐Tariff Barriers to Trade in EAC NTBs in EAC, like in any other region, result in delays and increased costs which ultimately  hinder the free movement of goods and services. Removal of NTBs is much more effective in  boosting intra‐regional trade that the method of tariff liberalisation. This is to say that,  returns in terms of welfare gains, growth, employment generation and poverty reduction  are more likely to be realised by addressing NTBs, than through tariff liberalisation.  (Odhiambo, W. 2010).  In 2005, the East African Business Council (EABC) launched a major initiative in efforts to  eliminate the existing NTBs in E...

  Education for Liberation and the Process of Conscientisation    Education for Liberation The concept of liberation presupposes a social situation where the democratic principle of equality is violated. John Locke (1632-1704), as we saw earlier, stated that every human being has the natural rights to life, to liberty and to property. The violation of individuals’ rights to liberty and to property tends to occur in the contexts where the more powerful members in a community infringe upon the rights of the weaker or less powerful members in that community. Liberation in such a context is an act of restitution to redress the injustices suffered under the violation of natural human rights. It is a process of setting the aggrieved individuals free from injustices - restoring their natural rights. Definitions To liberate some one is to set him free from the control of someone else, so that the liberated person is in control of his own life. It is a restoration of the natural r...