Human rights activist and lawyer Femi Falana SAN has urged the member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to “reject request by Morocco to join the body,” adding that, “the ECOWAS should not be deceived and misled to admit Morocco as a member state of the West African body.”
Falana said this today in a paper titled “Deploying the ECOWAS legal architecture for addressing impunity in West African sub region”, he presented at the multi-stakeholders consultative meeting on Strengthening the ECOWAS Court of Justice and enhancing Access to justice in the West African sub region.
Falana stated that, “Despite the so called Morocco’s strong ties with ECOWAS member states, trade between them remains low as it is less than USD 1 billion a year. This is insignificant as West Africa has a GDP of $345 billion. Even then,…
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