President Akufo-Addo <\/strong> <\/p>\nPresident Akufo-Addo has stated strongly that the inability of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to integrate fully is simply due to the lack of leadership.<\/p>\n
Addressing attendees of the 2019 International Conference of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, at the Mensvic Hotel under the theme, \u201cEconomic Integration of West Africa: Challenges and Prospects,\u201dthe President said the ECOWAS region cannot make the bold and urgent changes so required without appropriate united leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur problem over the years I suggest has been leadership. The implementation of plans to bring progress and prosperity to the 350 million citizens of ECOWAS has been left to well meaning technocrats and bureaucrats. However well meaning they may be, our region cannot make the bold transforming changes it needs to make without visionary, political leadership. We need leadership that is focused on the region and not on individual countries\u201d President Akufo Addo indicated.<\/p>\n
The EU Verses ECOWAS<\/p>\n
In a comparative analysis with the integration success that the European Union (EU) has achieved as compared to ECOWAS, President Akufo Addo noted that \u201cthe European Union took off because the political leadership of France and Germany decided to make it work\u201d .<\/p>\n
\u201cToday however, while the EU is central to the life of Europeans, ECOWAS is still somewhat peripheral to the lifes of most West Africans and it is not for the lack of plans or even rules and regulations, it is simply that the political will to make integration real has been less evident than Europe\u201d the President noted. \u201cOnce the political will is evident, we can then work together to make ECOWAS a true regional community\u201d.<\/p>\n
President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice<\/p>\n
In his introductory remarks, President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Edward Amoako Asante, noted that ECOWAS over the years has recorded a lot of achievements as the leading Regional Economic Community (REC) in Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the establishment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in 1975, we have achieved great milestones but a lot still remains to be done. This conference therefore offers us a great opportunity to interrogate the challenges and prospects of our integration process\u201d Justice Edward Amoako Asante said.<\/p>\n
He further observed that \u201cby the quality of the participants ard having had the privilege of having a preview of the high quality of the presentations to be made here in the next three days, I am confident that this conference will be very fruitful and that the outcome of the conference will be useful in charting the course of the ECOWAS economic integration agenda in the years ahead\u201d.<\/p>\n
The ECOWAS Court of Justice<\/p>\n
The ECOWAS Court of Justice is the judicial organ of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and is charged with resolving disputes related to the Community\u2019s treaty, protocols and conventions. The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has competence to hear individual complaints of alleged human rights violations. Founded on May 28, 1975, under the Treaty of Lagos for the purpose of promoting economic integration across the region, ECOWAS comprises 15 West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.<\/p>\n
The ECOWAS Court of Justice was created pursuant to the Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States of 1993, and is headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. In addition to providing advisory opinions on the meaning of Community law, the Court has jurisdiction to examine cases involving: an alleged failure by a Member State to comply with Community law, a dispute relating to the interpretation and application of Community acts, dispute between Community institutions and their officials, Community liability, human rights violations, and the legality of Community laws and policies.<\/p>\n
The Court\u2019s decisions on human rights matters interpret the African Charter on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights, considered by Article 1(h) of Protocol A\/SP1\/12\/01 to contain \u201cconstitutional principles shared by all Member States\u201d as legally binding on ECOWAS Member States.<\/p>\n
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