Reps Deputy Speaker, Kalu leads ECOWAS Parliament Joint Committee meeting in Abidjan

A Joint Committee of the ECOWAS Parliament led by Nigeria’s House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu is holding an oversight delocalised gathering successful Abidjan, Ivory Coast, connected Aug. 12.

The weeklong event, which comprises immoderate of the parliament’s lasting committees, namely, Administration, Finance, Budget, Public Accounts, Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Research, volition extremity connected Friday.

The taxable of the lawsuit is: “The Role of the ECOWAS Parliament successful Community Budget Formulation and Monitoring.”

The Joint Committee was constituted and charged with executing the precise important oversight activities connected their aforementioned schedules arsenic encapsulated successful the outlined assemblage policy.

The main nonsubjective of the delocalized committee gathering is for its members to person in-depth cognition and knowing of the issues successful absorption with a presumption to facilitating parliamentary deliberations connected budgeting.

It besides aims to equip Members to transportation retired oversight functions implicit the programmes and activities of ECOWAS arsenic mandated by the Supplementary Act connected the Enhancement of the Powers of the Parliament.

It is expected that Members of the Joint Committee volition beryllium sensitized by assets persons and stakeholders drawn mostly from applicable method directorates of the ECOWAS Commission connected caller developments successful the sectors successful focus.

Resource persons drawn from applicable organisations similar the organized civilian society, volition besides marque presentations to the Joint Committee to equip the parliamentarians with all-round perspectives connected the issues.

The Committee connected Administration, Finance and Budget is liable for matters relating to the adoption of the assemblage budget; examining the draught yearly fund of the Parliament; monitoring fiscal and administrative absorption successful the parliament.

It is besides liable for assessing the effectiveness of assorted assemblage financing mechanisms, notably the implementation of the protocol relating to the assemblage levy; the coordination of assorted fiscal instruments.

The committee is besides charged with the task of evaluating the cost/effectiveness of implementing policies financed by the Community and controlling the execution of the Parliament’s budget.

It is besides tasked with verifying accounts and equilibrium sheets relating to decisions concerning the closure, presenting and auditing of the parliament’s gross and expenditure and measures accompanying oregon implementing these decisions.

The ECOWAS Parliament has 115 seats and fourteen Standing Committees. Each of the 15 subordinate states is guaranteed a minimum of 5 allotted seats.

The remaining forty seats are distributed successful proportionality to the colonisation of each country.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Nigeria has a full of 35 seats followed by Ghana with 8 seats. Côte d’Ivoire is allotted 7 seats, whereas Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Senegal person six seats respectively.

The remaining ECOWAS Member States, namely Benin, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Togo, person 5 seats.

Reps Deputy Speaker, Kalu leads ECOWAS Parliament Joint Committee gathering successful Abidjan