Ekweremadu, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Uche Anichukwu, gave the commendation today at the opening of the 2014 First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja.
The Speaker, who also doubles as the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, recalled that he had made two previous calls for such strategic inter-regional cooperation.
He described terrorism as a transnational phenomenon and decried the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, as “the height of cowardice and depravity.”
He stressed that Boko Haram had by “its mindless waste of human lives and property as well as the senseless abductions declared total war, not only on Nigeria, but also the West African sub-region and indeed humanity, irrespective of tribe, religion, and political persuasion.”
Ekweremadu called for a full implementation of the resolutions and strategies adopted at the Paris Summit.
He said, “The summit in France should serve as prelude to an all-inclusive Inter-regional Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, and the ECOWAS to build greater cooperation, strategy, and capacity to fight their common enemies.”
Meanwhile, the opening ceremony was preceded by the foundation-laying ceremony for a new office complex for the Community Parliament as well as the inauguration of the newly refurbished parliamentary building by the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President John Mahama of Ghana.
Mahama, who was represented by the Vice President, Mr. Kwesi Ammisah-Arthur, condemned the insurgency in the country, describing it as a regional threat, stressing that the ECOWAS Parliament had serious roles to play in ensuring regional stability.
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