Kenya, Nigeria sign MoU on cooperation in police service

By Kazungu Chai

ABUJA, NIGERIA: Kenya and Nigeria have signed three agreements and four Memoranda of Understanding that are aimed at promoting trade between the two countries.

The agreements were on Trade Cooperation and Agricultural Cooperation which lay the foundation for businesspeople from Kenya and Nigeria to interact and promote business and make provisions for the two countries to work together in boosting their agriculture respectively.

The third agreement was on immigration matters and seeks to ease the movement of people between Kenya and Nigeria.

The signing ceremony was witnessed by President Uhuru Kenyatta and President Goodluck Jonathan at State House, Abuja.

MoUs signed were on cooperation in police service, five-year multiple visa for prominent businesspersons, cooperation in control of the possession and trafficking in narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances, and one MoU between Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) and the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry which was signed at a business forum attended by Kenyan and Nigerian businesspeople.

In a communique read by Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Amb. Aminu Bashir Wali, at the end of bilateral talks between the Kenyan delegation led by Uhuru and the Nigerian delegation led by President Jonathan, the two leaders expressed satisfaction at the ongoing efforts to deepen trade relations between the two countries.

Uhuru and Jonathan acknowledged that increased trade flows were not only important for the development of the two countries but were also critical in building intra-Africa trade –an important ingredient towards full integration of the continent.