How does Burundi stand to collectively benefit from regional integration?

A reader writes :

Within the context of the EAC and regional integration I am sad to say Onyango is 110% correct. However I strongly object to how he puts his point across. It is simply inexcusable. This morning I awoke to news that Kenya-Uganda-Rwanda-Sudan agreed to build a gas pipeline originating in Sudan that will pass through all 4 countries and take steps to build the railroad everyone have been talking about for ages. Burundi doesn’t stand to directly benefit from either projects as they will both end in Rwanda and Kenya. Unless our legal representation i.e. the government actively partakes in, initiates this and other regional efforts to our benefit the sad reality is we will end up being a backwater member within the EAC. Within the context of these United States, Mississippi is pretty much cotton, republicans and more cotton; all goods and services originate from other states. I have always been fearful we will share the same fate within the EAC. The most important questions of our generation should be: how do we stand to collectively benefit from regional integration? What do we want out of it? How will attain it and when? Within this context, failure of our government does not in any way, shape or form define our people. In Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania’s collective journey towards federation our legal representation is asleep at the wheel that is not to say our people are asleep rather we are wide awake!

Another:

I was also bothered by the tripartite summit in Kampala, where does it leave the EAC non participant members ( Bdi & Tanzania)? May be Tanzania is not interested by the pipeline project because of its Indian Ocean home advantage to say, what about our Country? I wish to ask these questions to our economic and EAC integration decisions makers.