H.E Senator Ike Ekweremadu
Deputy Senate President
Sir,
In Feb 2016, your valedictory address
in Abuja at the inauguration of Moustapha Cisse Lo, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly
of Senegal, as the Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament
was received; having served resoundingly
as Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament and you had caused to be adopted the
Supplementary Act on the enhancement of powers of ECOWAS Parliament by the
Community decision making body. Having handed over the Mandate to Moustapha Cisse Lo of Senegal who now serves a four-year tenure
2016-2020, significant.
In the face of threats posed by President Jammeh’s challenges in the
sub-region, one would say reading statements in Nigeria, hereunder yours being
reported. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/explore-dialogue-gambia-ekweremadu-warns-ecowas-heads-state/
In your call for dialogue, I urge you to use your ECOWAS platform to
bring about a peaceful resolution ASAP. It was because Jammeh dismissed the
ECOWAS mediation team as biased that ECOWAS troops started positioning to strike
should YJ refuse to leave office on 18 Jan, 2017.
Acknowledging Dr Bukola Saraki is President of the Senate, perhaps the
Nigerian senate could constitute a Mediation
Committee or an Adhoc committee of sort to dialogue if you are unable to
use the platform of ECOWAS Parliament or should ECOWAS Parliament not be in a
position to steer it, considering Senegal’s position right now. I am of the
view that in the next couple of days peaceful transition is achievable if
vigorously pursued.
Yesterday 3rd Jan 2017 the US Senate had resumed and I was
listening to Senator Chuck Schumer (Democrat) Minority Leader on CNN ref:
“US twitter presidency”.
Great men and Women don’t want war because the consequences for children
and women are grave. Nigeria is not at
war, and Tuesday Punch newspaper reports of 4 cultists in Lagos publicly assaulting
women. Imagine in a war situation what would happen to vulnerable members of
any society, assault of unimaginable proportion.
NG Senate and or ECOWAS Parliament please act now! You want to ask why
don’t Nigerians tell H.E President Buhari to lead ECOWAS mediation or dialogue,
you know PMB is not a great name in mediation or dialogue, please.
Best,
Carol Ajie, LL.M Int’l Georgetown; LAWA Fellow
2009-2010; Vital Voices Lead Fellow 2013-2017
EmpowerWomen @ UN Women Global Champion for
Change 2016-2017
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