Oversight and training of Members of Parliament (MPs) of the 6th Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has been given priority in the 2025 budget.
According to the leader of the Gambian delegation to the sub-regional Parliament, Hon Billay Tunkara, compare to the 2024 budget, next year’s budget has seen some increase in the area of training and oversight.
In an interview he pointed out that, the concerns of the Community Parliament lawmakers for priority to be given to training and sensitization activities in various members of the workings of the Parliament was considered.
“But you should understand that there are no enough resources to run the Parliament; the limited resources will have to be shared among other ECOWAS institutions as we are mindful of the short coming of the levy”, he stated.
He further pointed out that, ECOWAS is experiencing some short falls because some members are defaulting in the payment of the levy; so all these should be taken into account. We need to prioritize our activities too, he emphasized.
