Speakers of parliaments in African countries will soon meet to discuss ways to seek from external debts.
Nigeria’s speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, made the meeting known on his verified Twitter handle, @FemiGbaja, on Thursday night.
Gbajabiamila had at the previous meeting stated the urgent need to join local and global efforts to push for the cancellation of the external debt owed by various countries on the continent.
He tweeted, “Today, I engaged with my colleagues from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa to discuss how African speakers can collaborate in the joint task of loosening the stranglehold of foreign debt on our economies, a precursor to hosting the 2021 Conference of African Speakers in Abuja.”
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