Kano Hosts Extraordinary Second ECOWAS Parliament’s Session

From May 20, Kano will host the Second Extraordinary Session of the Sixth Legislature of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

The Deputy Senate President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, has appointed Ismail Mudashir as his Special Advisor. According to a statement he signed, the Senate’s Second Extraordinary Session will take place at the Bristol Hotel in Kano from May 20 to 25, 2024.

According to the statement, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government and president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, attended the opening session of the Sixth Legislature of the ECOWAS Parliament on April 4 of this year.

The statement added that the Deputy President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Barau I Jibrin, emerged as the First Deputy Speaker of the assembly during the inauguration.

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“The ECOWAS parliament’s second session will attract parliamentarians from Nigeria, Benin Republic, Burkina Faso Cabo Verde, Cote D’ Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Republic of Togo,” Mudashir said in the statement.

The ECOWAS Parliament, also known as the Community Parliament, is one of the institutions of the ECOWAS.

It is the Assembly of peoples of the community, serving as a forum of dialogue, consultation and consensus for representatives of the people of West Africa to promote integration.

The ECOWAS Parliament which was established under Articles 6 and 13 of the ECOWAS revised treaty of 1993 is composed of 115 seats.