News:
February 4, 2020
The fifth Legislature of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is expected to be sworn-in in the first quarter of this year in, Niamey Niger.
And leader of the Liberian delegation to the fourth Community Parliament, Edwin Melvin Snowe Junior has assured that in the fifth legislature he would speak truth to power.
According to Melvin Snowe it would be wrong for anyone to think because the incoming Speaker Sidi Mohamed Tunis from Sierra Leone is his good friend, he would not be active like he was in the fourth Legislature.
“You can be my best friend if you do not live up to expectation believe me I would speaker truth to power, we expect the incoming Speaker to uphold the dignity and integrity of the Parliament”.
In an interview with journalists in the Gambia, he noted that what people do not know about he was that many years back when he served as President of Liberian Football Association (LFA), the current President of his country, His Excellency was his player and friend for over thirty-five years.
“When he wanted to be President of Liberia I told him you are my best friend you want to be president, I do not think I would want to support you, I went to the opposition and supported the opposition against him”.
Mr. Snowe Junior further pointed out that he anticipate the incoming Speaker of the fifth Community Legislature to do better and build on what the outgone Speaker Cisse Lo had done. “We would hold him to the books and remind him of his short comings. Again we would encourage him in private and public”.
“What Cisse Lo did good, bad or ugly, I can say to you that he left a glass half full and not empty that we must build on, for our people in the sub-region to feel ECOWAS Parliament and appreciate it, then they would feel that this is a Parliament for the region that they can walk and work with”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com/Banjul