HIGHLIGHT – Saraki
Senate President, Bukola Saraki will on Tuesday lead a five-man delegation on a three-day visit to the Bundestrat, equivalent of the Senate in the German Parliament.
The visit is to promote improved economic relations between Nigeria and Germany as well as for the purpose of peer review.
A statement signed by Yusuph Olaniyonu, Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to the Senate President stated that the delegation which includes Senate Deputy Leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Monsurat Sunmonu, Chairman, Committee on Power, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Chairman, Committee on Defence, Abubakar Kyari will hold series of meetings with the leadership of the German Parliament and the German-African business groups.
The visit will commence with a visit to a German Village, Feldheim, which was the first community in the country to achieve 100 per cent self-sufficient renewable energy.
The Senators will at different times meet with the President of the Bundestrat, Mrs Dreyer, Vice President of Bundestag, the lower House, Johannes Singhammer, the Parliamentary State Secretary in charge of the Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, Thomas Silberhorn, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, head of Julius Berger, Mr. Walter J. Lindener and President of the Berlin House of Representatives, Ralf Wieland.
It will also hold discussions with economic representatives of the German-African Business Association, the Parliamentary Friendship Group for relations with the English and Portuguese speaking States of West and Central Africa of the Bundestag and attend plenary of the Bundestrat.
The Senators will further solicit support from the Germans for Nigeria’s drive for diversification of its economy and solicit the support of the German business community.
