FWA URGED MEDIA ENTITIES TO SENSITISE PUBLIC ON ECOWAS PROTOCOLS!

Deputy Foreign Affairs and regional integration,  Emmanuel Bombande has called on Journalists & Media stakeholders to uphold the mandate of the ECOWAS in implementing a  single west African market.

He stressed the media has a role to play In pushing the initiatives and agenda of the ECOWAS.

Speaking at a one - day media seminar on ECOWAS protocols on Good governance & democracy;
And it's provisions on Pro-poor policies and economic redistribution.

He made reference to the failed harmonisation of fiscal and monetary policies leading to the establishment of a common currency zone.

He was of the view that the media has a role to play in the implementation and projection of  policies and strategies of ECOWAS that bother on free movement of goods and services.

Journalists from various media outlets (TV3, Onua Fm, Joy News, GNA, Radio XYZ, The Finder, Montie FM, Metro TV) were taken through series of topics and protocols that bother on how the ECOWAS operates.

Senior research fellow at LECIAD, Dr. Philip Attuquayefio, noted the media can highlight thematic issues of poverty that is in the area of absence or lack of basic utilities, access to education or quality health care among others.

The minister launched the event outdooring a booklet that contained details of what ECOWAS is all about.