In preparation for legal documents to guide in the impaction of the lives of millions across ECOWAS citizens, a legal retreat was held in Banjul to enable the drafting of legal texts for the ECOWAS midyear statutory meeting.
The essence is to influence the decisions of authorities in the ECOWAS sub-region on meeting the needs of citizens to reflect the vision of her founding fathers for growth and productivity.
Speaking at the opening ceremony the Acting Director of the Legal Affairs Directorate of the ECOWAS Commission, Isatou Combeh Njai, said the meeting is important considering their task to prepare legal documents that will serve as a guide for ECOWAS.
“The network of ECOWAS legal advisers held its 4TH retreat in Banjul with the drafting of legal texts in preparation for the ECOWAS midyear statutory meeting. The network comprises legal luminaries from the ECOWAS Commission as well as other ECOWAS institutions. The objective of the meeting was to harmonize the drafting of all legal documents within the community and exchange knowledge regarding the standardization of legal texts.
“The Banjul meeting also scrutinized the community and supplementary acts, as well as decisions and directives in preparation for the statutory meetings. The retreat also allows the legal advisers to adopt the implementation of the existing community texts to ensure its uniform interpretation and application across ECOWAS Institutions and agencies and offices.”
ECOWAS is implementing critical and strategic programs that will deepen cohesion and progressively eliminate identified barriers to full integration for the realization of ECOWAS Vision 2050.
