Vice Chairman of ECOWAS Parliament’s Committee on Trade, Custom and Free Movement, Stephen J. H. Zargo, has said the joint delocalised Committee meeting that just ended in Lome Togo has been very fruitful as professionals brought in to handle various topics handled them very well.
According to him, the only concern and reservation is that Committees cluster together so specific Committee functions are known.
“I have not seen anything about our Committee.”
“You are just telling me Togo opened its land border with Ghana just this Monday, May 16, 2022. There should not have even been a border in the first place between Togo and Ghana.
“You have Ewes in Ghana and Togo meaning you are same people. Same with Nigeria and Benin, Sierra Leone and Liberia; these are the ideas of the imperialists,” he said in an interview.
The joint committees of Public Account/Administration, Finance and Budget/Macroeconomic Policies and Economic Research/Trade, Customs and Free Movement ended its delocalised meeting on Wednesday, on the theme, “The modalities for the practical implementation of Article 9 and 11 of the Supplementary Act of the Parliament in respect of the consideration of the Community Audit Report.”
He added that Africa as a continent should be bold to call a spade a spade, and take immigration officers away from the borders and bring them into the main country for them to become officers of the West Africa Sub region.
He questioned, “Why would you want to regulate a Togolese coming to Ghana or a Ghanaian coming to Togo? Are they not the same people, same with Liberia and Sierra Leone.
“In the European Union (EU) the only way you get to notice the difference is the uniform they put on, and “if they can do it why can’t we do the same? Is it not the same blood following through us, let us consider the struggles our fore fathers have gone through sometimes I wonder if they are to come back what would they be telling this generation?”
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Lome-Togo
