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Ghanaians Should Be Bilingual In English, French To Materialize Ecowas Vision, Says FM
ACCRA, Aug 29 (BERNAMA-NNN-GNA) -- Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hannah Tetteh, has recommended that Ghana should be a bi-lingual country with its citizens speaking both English and French to help materialize the vision of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas).
Unless Ecowas member states became fully committed to the total eradication of artificial barriers which constituted major impediments to the free movement of people, goods and services across the region, the vision of Ecowas would not be realised, she said Wednesday.
For 38 years, the common problems which motivated the founding fathers to establish Ecowas as a regional economic community still lingered, Tetteh said in a lecture on "Regional Integration as a Tool for Poverty Reduction in West Africa" at a ceremony to inaugurate the Consumer Utility and Trust Society (CUTS) International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) think tank involved in conducting research and engaging in network-based advocacy in trade, regulation and governance.
CUTS has opened its third international office in Africa in Accra after those of Lusaka and Nairobi. The lecture also marked the 8th CUTS 30th Anniversary Lecture.
Tetteh said an educated and capable human resource remained indispensable to the efficient exploitation of the sub-region's enormous resource for its development. "It is undoubtedly the panacea to the widespread poverty, technological backwardness and economic and social deprivation of the West African sub-region," she added.
She appealed to Ecowas member states to consciously increase budgetary allocations to education as a strategy to produce intelligent, creative, capable and reliable workforce to drive the desired economic growth and sustainable development which she said was a prerequisite for poverty reduction.
Ecowas groups Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
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Unless Ecowas member states became fully committed to the total eradication of artificial barriers which constituted major impediments to the free movement of people, goods and services across the region, the vision of Ecowas would not be realised, she said Wednesday.
For 38 years, the common problems which motivated the founding fathers to establish Ecowas as a regional economic community still lingered, Tetteh said in a lecture on "Regional Integration as a Tool for Poverty Reduction in West Africa" at a ceremony to inaugurate the Consumer Utility and Trust Society (CUTS) International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) think tank involved in conducting research and engaging in network-based advocacy in trade, regulation and governance.
CUTS has opened its third international office in Africa in Accra after those of Lusaka and Nairobi. The lecture also marked the 8th CUTS 30th Anniversary Lecture.
Tetteh said an educated and capable human resource remained indispensable to the efficient exploitation of the sub-region's enormous resource for its development. "It is undoubtedly the panacea to the widespread poverty, technological backwardness and economic and social deprivation of the West African sub-region," she added.
She appealed to Ecowas member states to consciously increase budgetary allocations to education as a strategy to produce intelligent, creative, capable and reliable workforce to drive the desired economic growth and sustainable development which she said was a prerequisite for poverty reduction.
Ecowas groups Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
-- BERNAMA-NNN-GNA
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