Saraki Jets To US To Attend Launch Of Trump’s Africa Strategy

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has travelled with a delegation of
other lawmakers to the United States of America to attend President
Donald Trump’s ‘Strategy for Africa’ to be unveiled on Thursday,
December 13, 2018.

In a statement signed by the Senate
President’s spokesperson, Yusuph Olaniyonu, the US president’s new
strategy for Africa gives room for more effective utilisation of
existing U.S. resources on the continent.

“The Trump plan,
according to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African
Affairs, Tibor P. Nagy, Jr, will focus on bringing more foreign direct
investment into Africa and is in line with the Legislative Agenda of the
8th National Assembly which is aimed at reforming the Nigerian economy
through strategic legislation that will help promote increased
participation of private sector actors,” the statement read.

Other
members of the National Assembly that accompanied Saraki are the
Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affair,
Senator Ben Bruce; Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee,
Senator Monsurat Sunmonu; and Chairman of the House of Representatives
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Honourable Nnenna Ukeje.