By John Ikani
Gambia’s Omar Alieu Touray is the new President of the ECOWAS Commission, replacing Cote D’Ivoire’s Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, who has served a four-year mandate with an extension of three months and 10 days ending on July 10.
According to a statement issued on Tuesday by Salett Nogueira, of the Communications Division of the Commission, Brou handed over to a new management led by Touray from July 13, 2022, at the ECOWAS Commission Headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.
With the transition, Brou will now assume office as Governor of the Central Bank of West African States, BCEAO while Touray will head the seven-member Commission of a sub-region dogged by insecurity and political instability with three of the 15 member-states under military rule.
Other statutory appointees heading ECOWAS institutions will also be assuming office.
The new Statutory appointees were named at the just concluded 61st Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in Accra on July 3, 2022. They will serve for a period of four years.
ECOWAS will be moving from a Fifteen-man Commission to a Seven-man Commission with the New Management.
