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Ghana will host the maiden delocalised committee meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament at Winneba, Central Region, from July 27 to July 31, 2021.https://c30a0e755a2f0f02b4e33f1cfeafd34d.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
The meeting will bring together 30 Members of Parliament (MPs) from three committees of the ECOWAS Parliament, namely Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Telecommunications and Information Technology and Political Affairs, Peace, Security and African Peer Review Mechanisms.
The participants from 15 countries will deliberate on how to foster uniformity and proper regulations in the application and use of telecommunications and information technology in the sub-region.
With this arrangement, it will mean that instead of the committee meetings being held in Abuja, the seat of the ECOWAS Parliament, it will now be rotated among member countries, for which Ghana is hosting the first.
Some consultants will be in attendance to apprise the members of the best way to integrate telecommunication infrastructure and push for common reforms and legislations to improve telecommunication services in the region.
The meeting forms part of efforts by the Abuja-based regional bloc to encourage member countries to host localised meetings of its various committees in order to reach out to the community’s citizens in West Africa.
Opening ceremony
Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, will today join the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Mohammed Tunis, to officially open and address the ceremony, which will be held on the theme: ‘Telecommunication and information technology and its Impacts on security and human rights in the sub-region.’
The ceremony comes ahead of the Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS in Ghana in September, this year.
Memorable event
Briefing the press on the meeting in Parliament last Friday, the Chairman of Ghana’s eight-member delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, gave an assurance that
Ghana was committed to all the protocols of the ECOWAS Parliament.
“And we are ready to make this meeting a memorable one,” he said.
He said adequate security arrangements had been put in place to ensure the safety of all the delegates.
“The police have done what they have to do in terms of security and they have promised their commitment to security within the period,” he said.