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July 12, 2024
Emmanuel Kofi Armah Buah, Deputy Minority Leader in Ghana’s parliament cannot fanthom how it is easy to travel from the West African sub-region to Europe than from among sub-regional countries.
Mr. Buah, a Ghanaian representative in the ECOWAS Parliament said, “It’s difficult to travel from Ghana to Sierra Leone; but how come it’s easy to visit Europe and America from the sub-region, and what are we doing to address this?”
As to what the Parliament is doing to help address the whole issue of Free Movement of ECOWAS citizens in the wake of high ticket prices and transport fairs, he noted in an interview that it is not an issue for the Parliament to intervene.
He said the focus should rather be to create a conducive economic atmosphere that would propel investments in the region; a situation that would generate healthy competition. “If we have enough airlines, prices would go down, prices of fuel would go down and that of tax in member states as well”.
Again, when we have a critical look at these things the market would transform itself we should focus on some of these things.
He asserts that things about ECOWAS should be prioritized if we want to achieve results and make positive impacts.
“We should not treat ECOWAS as an afterthought; ECOWAS should not be looked at when we are less busy, ECOWAS should be our focus, the objective of setting up ECOWAS is very relevant today and like the time it was founded we need to move faster than we are moving now”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com