The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament on Sunday dismissed claims made by several Nigerian lawmakers on unethical recruitment practices in the organisation, IgbereTV reports
The Vice Chairman of the Parliament’s Recruitment Committee, Senator Edwin Snowe, made the clarification in a chat with Parliamentary Correspondents in Abuja.
Snowe was reacting to the uproar that followed the alleged anomalies in the ECOWAS recruiting process.
A few Nigerian lawmakers had during the week threatened to quit the Parliament, claiming that the recruitment process had been unfair to their citizens.
The Nigerian delegation also threatened to withdraw the country’s membership of the regional bloc if it refused to suspend the ongoing recruitment exercise as recently directed in the 2022 First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja.
Snowe, however, refuted the allegation and described it as “a misrepresentation” of the real issues by the Nigerian delegation
