News:
June 15, 2021
Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Rt. Hon Sidie Mohamed Tunis has said Ghana’s Speaker, Rt. Hon Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin is in support of the election of lawmakers by direct universal adult suffrage.
“I told the Speaker about our vision of direct election taking effect as soon as possible and I am pleased to say the Speaker himself was very supportive”, he said in an interview.
According to him when he called on the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, they spoke on a wide range of issues but more importantly was the issue of the relationship between the Ghanaian and ECOWAS Parliament.
Speaker Tunis was accompanied by Secretary-General John Azumah and Leader of the Liberian delegation to the Community Parliament, Edwin Melvin Snowe Junior on Monday, June 14, 2021, when he paid a courtesy call on Ghana’s Speaker.
Mr. Tunis further noted that they came to inform the Ghanaian Speaker about the upcoming delocalised meeting of the ECOWAS Parliament toward the end of July 2021 and an Extraordinary meeting in September 2021.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com