News:
January 23, 2020
All is set for ECOWAS parliamentary three day’s seminar in the Gambia from Thursday, January 23 to 25, 2020.
A member of the Gambian delegation to the Community Parliament, Fatoumatta Njai and a member of the local organizing committee in collaboration with Gambia’s National Assembly noted that they are eighty percent prepared for tomorrow’s programme.
According to her, they are having helping hand from staff of the ECOWAS Parliament secretariat from Abuja, who are on the ground to ensure a successful extraordinary meeting in the Gambia.
She pointed out in an interview that lawmakers from the Community Parliament have been well received with Bureau meeting held on Tuesday and the Conference of Bureau meeting on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the President of the Gambia, H. E. Adama Barrow is expected to be in attendance to open the Parliamentary seminar to be followed by the extraordinary meeting slated for January 27 to 31, 2020.. “So far so good everything has been going on well”, she explained.
Madam Fatoumatta Njai noted that the meeting is to evaluate what has taken place in the past four years and come out with resolutions since this is the last session of the life span of the fourth legislature.
“We have resource persons from all over the world and we would be looking at our enhancement powers; how far we have gone with it, what needs to be done as we move forward into the fifth legislature”.
She also indicated that for a smooth transition, “we are looking at the way forward always to be better, we need to evaluate and see what we have missed and the best that can be done”.
It is worth stating that the local organisation committee was seen around preparing seriously to ensure tomorrow’s even turns out good.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com/Banjul