Chairman Mulbah also disclosed that L$72,030.50 was generated from gate intake both in Sanniquellie and SKD and L$100,000 from Winners Inc.
As part of the evaluation of regional and national responses as well as interventions in drug prevention and control in the region ECOWAS Commission and ENACT will organise on September 11, 2024, a Seminar on Drug use and supply in West Africa for the official launch of 2023 WENDU repor
This event is co-hosted by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and by the Enhancing Africa’s ability to Counter Transnational Crime project (ENACT, a project funded by the European Union)
The 2023 WENDU report is the fourth regional report on illicit drug trafficking and drug use in West Africa.
The report highlights the latest estimates and trends on drug abuse and drug supply, as well as trafficking in substandard, spurious, falsified and counterfeit medicinal products in West Africa.
The report is based on data collected by the WENDU National Focal Points (NFPs) in each of the available ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania.
The launch will make available the 2023 WENDU report for programming, policy, and advocacy to address the social, health and economic consequences of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in West Africa.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established when the ECOWAS Treaty was signed by 15 West African Heads of State and Government on May 28, 1975 in Lagos, Nigeria.
The ECOWAS region spans an area of 5.2 million square kilometres.
The Member States are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leo-ne, Senegal and Togo.
Considered one of the pillars of the African Economic Community, ECOWAS was set up to promote co-operation and integration, leading to the establishment of an economic union in West Africa to raise the living standards of its peoples, and to maintain and enhance economic stability, foster relations-among Member States and contribute to the progress and development of the African continent.
In 2007, ECOWAS Secretariat was transformed into a Commission.
The Commission is headed by the Presi-dent, assisted by a Vice President, and Five Commissioners, comprising experienced bureaucrats who are providing the leadership in this new orientation.
As part of this renewal process, ECOWAS is implementing critical and strategic programs that will deepen cohesion and progressively eliminate identified barriers to full integration.
In this way, the estimated 300 million citizens of the community can ultimately take owner-ship for the realization of the new vision of moving from an ECOWAS of States to an “ECOWAS of the People: Peace and Prosperity to All” by 2050.
