The
West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) has expressed reservation over term
elongation in West Africa and called on Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) to checkmate the trend, ITRealms reports.
This
subject matter will dominate discussions as 30 participants representing
leading Civil Society Organization (CSOs) in the area of democratic governance
in West Africa meet in Dakar (Senegal) from September 9 to 10, 2015.
ITRealms gathered that the meeting is being convened with experts on
constitutional matters with the aim of addressing the issue of presidential
term limits in West Africa. The two-day meeting will seek to harmonize the
positions of civil society actors on the issue of the limitation of
presidential terms in West Africa. These organizations will also discuss ways
to convince ECOWAS member states to consider and adopt a common provision on
this issue.
A press statement signed by Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), Acting General Secretary for WACSOF/FOSCAO and Mathias Hounkpe, the Political Governance Programme Manager at OSIWA, the group seeks to push ECOWAS to take the bold step of adopting term limits at community level, adding that such a provision be included in the texts governing the organization. The meeting of the major CSOs in West Africa, ITRealms gathered, is meant to discuss and develop a strategy for this objective.
The event is supported by OSIWA, WACSOF acts in consideration of its mandate and capacity as the civil society coordination hub in West Africa and in connection to its supportive role to ECOWAS agenda, ITRealms reports.
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