United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

I attended the convention in Lomé in June, and we had a Lomé declaration signed at ministerial level, which contained a lot of challenges we are talking about, blocked from taxes and charges.

I hope that after the Lomé declaration, a state will really start to implement and also we have certain kpis implementation kpis So UNECA is developing it with AFKAC.

And it's very important for us to have these KPIs and to look also country by country, their readiness and willingness to implement SATA.

and saturn of course alone is not enough to develop the air transport on the continent it's also important to create the condition to grow the traffic and also visa openness is something very important and also we need also to work aviation sector with other sectors like trade and tourism to grow the aviation on the continent.

Since Oliver Chinganya, and is a dear colleague of mine, I was with him at the African Union in Addis Ababa.

He was one of the senior leaders to the other organization that a Zambian ambassador does, accredited to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Oliver Chinganya was second in command there to Vera.

vera sonko yeah he held such a high position but since his return to zambia statistics it hasn't been rosy you remember his um best up with a with civil society civil service commission chairperson Dr. Bene who alleged that there are no the statistics we give about Bembas is bogus because it's been to those villages you travel lands and lands and they are empty and I was wondering where the numbers for Bembas come from it has been their preoccupation that someone was manipulating they don't want to believe what is true they think they can manufacture numbers remember uh they tried they released statistics the director general there who ceo is sheila s mudenda and oliver chinganya but since the two assumed leadership they are bogus statistics i can call them that on inflation dubious, dubious, doesn't relate with what's happening.

He has led or supported key regional efforts around ECOWAS payments and settlement system, West African capital market integration, and ECOWAS investment codes and policy frameworks.

nationally that's within nigeria he was among the experts appointed by the federal government of nigeria in 2012 to develop trade policy implementation in nigeria in october 2018 he was a member of the technical working group on the nigeria impact and readiness assessment of the african continental free trade area and currently a member of the national action committee on the african continental free trade area Professor Aremu was appointed as a national consultant of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa that developed the after-national strategy for Nigeria.

He was also a coordinator in one of the main technical working groups established by the federal government of Nigeria that developed the National Development Plan from 2021 to 2050.

Finally, Dr. Abe Mu was the national coordinator and country team leader of UNIDO investment survey in Nigeria from the year 2009 to the year 2012 and a member of the technical experts that developed the Pan-African Investment Code that was used in the development of adopted investment protocol of AFTA and currently a member of the technical experts appointed African Union towards sustainable investment across AU member states since 2019.

I was again Zambia's ambassador to Ethiopia.

I was again Zambia's permanent representative to the African Union and permanent representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa until 2021, end of 2021.

When I returned from diplomatic duties and came back in my country in Lusaka, I decided to join politics and I was actually among the presidential aspirants in our country when the ruling party lost election.

The party that was led by Edgar Chagwalungu lost election and there was a review of who should be our next leader.