Akufo-Addo Calls For United Africa

Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, in a statement to mark the year’s Africa Day, which fell on Tuesday May 25, has urged his colleague leaders of African countries to strengthen the collaboration among themselves and work to achieve the pan-African dream of a united Africa.

Nana Akufo-Addo made the call just a day after he tasked the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Pan African Parliament, in Johannesburg, South Africa to realize the objects of Agenda 2063, and help create “The Africa We All Want’ in this current time.

“As I indicated to the Pan African Parliament on Monday, 24th May 2021, we have it within us to transform our economies and bring prosperity to our peoples. So let is join together to make it possible within our generation, and let us work together towards fulfilling in our time, the pan-African dream of a united Africa”, Nana Addo noted in his statement on Tuesday.

The statement continued: I urge all of us, on this day, also to rededicate our energies, within the confines of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 titles ‘The Africa We Want’, to the implementation of the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals. They represent the most ambitious plan the global community has yet devised to eradicate global poverty, and, hopefully leave no one behind.

“There is no group of peoples with a greater stake in the realization of the SDGs than the African peoples, for reasons that are self-evident.”

Akufo-Addo, in his Africa Day statement said “COVID-19 notwithstanding, and in spite of the many challenges confronting our continent, I believe strongly that Africa is capable of unleashing the considerable energies and huge potentials of her peoples, so that we can make our unique contribution to the growth of the world civilization.”

Addressing the Pan African Parliament on Monday, President Akufo-Addo said it is for the good of African countries that Parliaments on the continent develop the capacity to insist on accountability in all aspects of life, especially in r governance.

He said there is no institution that is better suited to do this than the one composed of the representatives of the people.

Nana Addo expressed strong faith in the work of Parliament and he made a strong call on the urgent need to deepen continental integration and strengthen ties that exist between respective African countries.

He suggested the need to create platform and avenues for the Parliaments of the respective African countries to learn from each other, and, through that process, enhance the prospects of continental integration.