Committees of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament have requested for the abolition of the residence permit system within the West Africa.This was revealed in a draft report presented at the end of their delocalized sittings in Banjul, The Gambia, recently.The joint committees include Social Affairs, Gender and Women Empowerment, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Political Affairs, Peace, Security, African Peer Review Mechanism (MAEP), Legal and Human Rights, Trade Customs, and Free Movement. They argued that the current residence permit system is a barrier to the free...