AU organ wants creation of United States of Africa

The Economic, Social and Cultural
Council of the African Union has
suggested that African countries
should team up and quickly move
towards the creation of the United
States of Africa.
The ECOSOCC said this in its reaction
to the xenophobic violence against
migrants and migrant workers,
including Nigerians, by South
African citizens.
The Presiding Officer of ECOSOCC,
Joseph Chilengi, in a statement on
Thursday in Abuja, said the creation
of the USA was the only way Africans
could live together in the political
and economic context envisioned
by the founding fathers of the AU.
Chilengi said the AU secretariat
should convene an extra-ordinary
emergency session to discuss the
situation in South Africa and
authorise a framework of action for
addressing xenophobia on a
collective basis.
He said, “They should also use the
experience to conceive Pan-African
programmes and policies that will
prevent its recurrence. The episode
draws attention to the need to fast
track the integration and
development agenda of the AU and
to move more rapidly towards the
creation of the United States of
Africa.
“It is only when Africans are living
together in this political and
economic context envisioned by
the founding parents of AU that we
can be rest assured that this
shameful exercise will never occur
again.”
Chilengi condemned the
xenophobic attacks on African
citizens of different nationalities,
saying ECOSOCC was sad to learn
that such incidents occurred in a
country for which Africans on the
continent and the Diaspora
sacrificed so dearly to ensure
independence and black majority
rule.
He said, “ECOSOCC is appalled to see
gruesome pictures of African
citizens of South African extraction
brutally assaulting, killing, looting
and burning the properties of their
kith and kin from other parts of the
continent. This is a blot on the
African landscape, which negates
the very essence of the AU and its
purpose, principles and values.
“This deplorable situation makes a
mockery of the people-centric
orientation of the AU in general and
ECOSOCC in particular; ECOSOCC
offers its sincere apology to all
victims of this shameful exercise.
Beyond this, ECOSOCC recognises
the need for timely and
appropriate action to ensure that
this episode ends immediately and
never recurs.”

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