Gambia, Ghana Endorse UN ECOWAS Report
Uche Aneke, Sirte Libya
Gambia
and Ghana have endorsed the report of a joint
UN-ECOWAS fact finding team on the circumstances
surrounding the deaths and disappearances of six
Ghanaian nationals in the Gambia in Year 2005.
The foreign ministers of the two
countries endorsed the agreements in Sirte Libya
on Thursday, with Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs
Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe and Deputy United
Nations Secretary General, Dr Asha- Rose Migoro as
witnesses.
Its
provisions
Under the agreement the two countries
will collaborate to exhume and repatriate bodies of
the deceased to their families in Ghana for them to
be given befitting traditional burials.
The agreement also acknowledged that
the government of the Gambia was not directly or
indirectly responsible for the deaths and
disappearances of the Ghanaian nationals.
Both countries equally pledged to
pursue the arrest and prosecution of all those
involved in the deaths and disappearances of the
Ghanaians and other ECOWAS nationals, especially
those identified in the report.
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