PAP pushes for full legislative status

Senator Ike Ekwerenmadu

PAP pushes for full legislative status
Funke Atohengbe, Pretoria

Speakers of National Parliaments in Africa have pledged to step up their efforts to make the Pan African Parliament a full fledged legislative body of the continent.

At the end of their two day meeting at the Pan African Parliament in Midrand, South Africa, the Speakers said making PAP a full legislative body would help to strengthen the democratic structure of the African Union.

Professor Kofi Kumado, a PAP Consultant told Voice of Nigeria's correspondent in South Africa, Funke Atohengbe that the Parliaments' desire to promote the principles of good governance, transparency and accountability could only be effectively realised in a full legislative state.

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Nigeria's Deputy Senate President and Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Senator Ike Ekwerenmadu, who presided over the debate on what it would take to make PAP a full legislative body, said the proposal to allow members of each country's National Parliament to elect representatives to PAP would not in any way cause any confusion.

He told Funke Atohengbe on the line from Abuja that speakers initially misunderstood Professor Kumado's proposal.  

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