ECOWAS First Ordinary Session, 2019 Opens in Abuja

The First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament for 2019 will commence on Wednesday, May 8th in Abuja, Nigeria. The Session is expected to end on June 3.

The three-week-long Session will be declared open by the Speaker of the Parliament, H.E. Moustapha Cisse Lo, while goodwill messages will be delivered by the President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou and President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, H.E. Jerome Traore.

Also, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the National Assembly of Burkina

Faso, H.E. Alassana Bala Sakande and their counterpart from the Kingdom

of Morocco are also expected to be part of the opening ceremony.

In a statement signed by the ECOWAS Parliament head of communication Uche Duru  says Parliamentarians from the sub-regional body will during the 28-day Session consider and adopt the draft agenda and draft work programme of May 2019 as well as the draft work programme of the Standing, Joint and Ad hoc Committee.

The MPs will also consider and adopt the draft Report of March 2019 Extra Ordinary Session and the programme of activities of the Parliament for the second quarter of 2019.

Similarly, the session will feature presentation of Country Reports, Reports

of the Standing, Joint and Ad hoc Committees and Reports of the Parliamentary fact-finding Missions in Plenary.

The Session will offer the MPs opportunity to hold interactive sessions with

the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Nigeria on the theme “Kampala Convention for the protection and assistance of

internally displaced persons in Africa”; and with the International campaign

to abolish nuclear weapons (ICAN) on the theme “United Nations Treaty on

the prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”