The new headquarters for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be built by China, the group confirmed in a press statement on Wednesday March 14, 2018.

The political bloc and China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the project that is expected to cost $31.6 million.

“The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Brou and the Ambassador of China to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Mr. Zhou Pingjian signed for both parties in a bilateral meeting held at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters, Abuja,” the statement read.

The idea of a new headquarters was initiated in 2012 but action on the said project takes immediate effect from the date of the signing of the deal.

The project is expected to cater for a facility comprising offices and conference complex building, as well as road facilities, electrical equipment, parking lots and security posts within the proposed site of the project.

ECOWAS currently operates from three different building in Nigeria’s administrative capital, Abuja. According to the President of the ECOWAS Commission that situation was necessitated by the increasing numbers of staff.

“An ECOWAS designated authority and the China Development Bank Corporation will work together to verify records of account payments at regular intervals,” the statement further clarified.

Why China Again?
According to original reports, the development emphasizes China’s political and diplomatic investment in Africa. But is that all there is to it?

China built the African Union (A.U.) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. They are also building a new parliament for Congo Republic and rebuilding the burnt premises in Gabon.

China is doling out the cash for these “investments”, and African nations are just comfortable doing nothing. It’s not that China is an imperialist, of course they are not. But they do have their own goals.

This year, China was accused by French newspaper, Le Monde, of spying on the African Union. The repor said China had installed hidden microphones in the AU building. And had been using it to transfer sensitive information at night time.

The A.U. and China jointly rubbished the report with China describing it as preposterous and meant to damage relations between the two partners.

https://africanjotter.com.ng/china-build-ecowas-headquarters-chinese-domination/

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Since d continent can't seem to get anything ryt let dem kuku com and recolonize Africa again.

Awoof dey run belle.

We Africans nd our shallow minded reasoning!!! so which would you prefer, a colonialists who builds first world infrastructure nd by so doing, creates more job opportunities nd beta livin condition, or a self proclaimed Democratic state dat does nothing but impose sanctions after sanctions citing human right abuse nd other false accusations without proof all because they do not want any state(especially a black state) to be independent nd free from western control/ influence. Use ur head

Youngboss54:
We Africans nd our shallow minded reasoning!!! so which would you prefer, a colonialists who builds first world infrastructure nd by so doing, creates more job opportunities nd beta livin condition, or a self proclaimed Democratic state dat does nothing but impose sanctions after sanctions citing human right abuse nd other false accusations without proof all because they do not want any state(especially a black state) to be independent nd free from western control/ influence. Use ur head

ONLY AFRICANS CAN FREE AFRICA.

This is re colonialisation. We have refused to move forward while other continents have done just that leaving us far behind. China wouldn't so anything for free. There be servers, cameras et al that will send whatever you do, say etc to Beijing which will allow China hold our leaders more by the balls. Honestly, African leaders are dumb in foreign politics.