President Muhammadu Buhari says a single African air transport market offers a fantastic opportunity to build a continental aviation sector that will foster efficient movement of people and goods.
The president made this submission while declaring open the 51st Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, in Abuja.
Represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Buhari said that such a single air transport market would help to move people and goods around the continent more quickly and efficiently.
The theme of the conference is, “African parliaments and the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.’’
The president said that the COVID-19 pandemic had wreaked havoc on the socio-economic fabric of most of the world, but in particular, African countries.
He said that women and girls were worst hit as the lockdowns had increased school dropout rates for girls, especially from low income families; increased child marriages, adolescent child bearing and gender-based violence.
