Martin Karoli Ngoga is an

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n Lawyer and politician, currently working as the speaker for East African Legislative Assembly. He is also a former

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of Rwanda and Special Representative to International Criminal Tribunal for

. He is the deputy chairperson of the FIFA Ethics Committee in charge of investigatory chamber. In 2019, during his meeting with speaker of the Parliament of Tanzania, Job Yustino Ndugai they decided to speedily embrace the Monetary Union, whose common currency would stipulate stability and with a stable exchange rate in the East African region, after EALA had passed two key pieces of legislation the ''East African Monetary Institute Bill, 2018'' and ''the EAC Statistics Bill, 2017.'' He joined EALA after beating Jennifer Wibabara, whom they were both fronted by the ruling

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(RPF-Inkotanyi) for legislators to choose who to send to Eala to replace MP Abdul Karim Harelimana, who had resigned. In 2019, the East African Court of Justice , under Lady Justice

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dismissed an application filed by

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that was challenging his election as a speaker in December 2017, saying that

boycotted the elections according to EALA rules of Procedures and the tennets of

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. He recently urged the community member states to put possible measures to have a common approach on COVID-19 pandemic such that citizens can continue to enjoy the benefits of integration. In 2019, Ngoga was allegedly reported that he had paid some media houses in the region like NTV and NBS Television to defame the Secretary General of EAC and the Burundian

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in Tanzania,

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that he had swindled the EAC funds. On 8 August 2007,as the

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of the Republic of Rwanda, addressed indictment and arrest warrant on one of genocide leaders Fabien Neretse to France through Interpol, requesting his extradition.

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