Borders: FG, AU Partner on free movement of persons in Ecowas Countries
The Federal Government and African Union (AU) have partnered to ensure free movement of persons within the ECOWAS countries.
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, pledged the country’s unalloyed support towards the agreement while playing host to an AU delegation in Abuja
The Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations in the ministry, Afonja Ajibola made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
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Aregbesola assured the delegation of the Federal Government’s commitment to the partnership, aimed at realisation of the ECOWAS protocol of free movement of persons, goods and services across the sub-region.
He said Terrorism and social unrest in other parts of the country which posed a major there’s to the protocol discouraged Nigeria from rectifying the protocol.
Also, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Shuaib Belgore, , assured the delegation that consultations were ongoing with other stakeholders over actualising free movement of persons and goods across the region.
Earlier the leader of the delegation, Rita Amokhobu, said that the purpose of the visit was to inform the minister of the outcome of their visit to the Benin-Seme border.
According to Amokhobu, it has accorded them the opportunity to gather information on how Nigeria complies with the AU treaty on free movement of persons and goods.
