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March 30, 2019
Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama hasdecried the lack of full implementation of ECOWAS Protocols aimed at fasttracking economic integration and development in the sub region.
Onyeama expressed concern over non implementation ofthe protocols on free movement of persons, goods and services in the subregion.
Onyeama said this in a statement by his Media Aide,Sarah Sanda, in Abuja.
The minister said this at the opening of a two-dayretreat of the ECOWAS Permanent Representatives Committee jointly organised bythe ECOWAS Commission and the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to ECOWAS.
Onyeama urged the Ambassadors to do more inconvincing their governments to ratify some of the key pending protocols andagreements as well as domesticating them.
The theme of the conference was “The PermanentRepresentatives Committee as a Catalyst for Implementing the Development,Regional Integration and Post Vision 2020 Programmes of ECOWAS”.