Be Decent and Decorous in your Speeches - Afenyo Markin

The Majority Leader of Ghana's Parliament and the MP for Effutu Constituency, Hon. Alexander Kwamena Afenyo Markin, has called on colleague ECOWAS parliamentarians to Express their views in a decorous and decent manner to serve as an example to those who participate in the assembly.

The majority leader who is also the third speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament said this in his welcome address today at the opening of the fourth ECOWAS Parliament joint Committee Meeting on Agriculture, Environment,Natural Energy Resources, Sanitation, and Mining/Infrastructure,in Winneba.

According to him the issues of plastic waste pollution need to be addressed urgently, otherwise, it may affect food security in Africa.

Hon. Markin observed that this threat of eminent food shortage if not checked could affect over 49.5 million people.

He noted that it was imperative for ECOWAS to think deeply to devise innovative and sustainable solutions, adding he was confident participants would prefer solutions that would address current challenges, without compromising the future of generations unborn.

He emphasized that it is vital that Parliament calls on member states to invest massively in Research and Development, Encourage Technological Innovation in the recycling and recovering of plastic wastes and strengthen the capacities of local players in the responsible management of plastic wastes.

"We need to adapt our school curricular to include compulsory subjects on the fight against climate change in general and plastic wastes in particular to better prepare them to adapt to these new challenges, "he stressed.