Reasons Why Sierra Leone’s $180 Billion West Africa Investment Summit To Be On November 16-18, Remains Bio’s Best Legacy Drive
- In an interview with The News during the thick of COVID-19, when President Bio rolled out his strategies to stabilise the economy despite the global catastrophe, he envisioned West African integration and investment as a viable vehicle to actualise the main objectives of ECOWAS founding fathers, as enshrined in the Lagos Treaty in 1975
- As the immediate past ECOWAS Chairman, Bio engaged in a wide range of diplomatic shuttles and hosted a series of conferences, geared toward promoting a unified regional economic bloc. The recent ECOWAS Heads of State summit in Lungi on July 19, 2026, where far-reaching regional decisions like the establishment of an ECOWAS depot in Lungi, the appointment of Aliko Dangote as chairman of ECOWAS Business Council, hosting of WAIIS on November 17-18, 2026 in Lungi, and many more, are classical reasons among Bio’s best legacies
- West Africa Integration and Investment Summit WAIIS in Lungi tops the list of his legacy. It will be an assembly of both political and business leaders, with a 180-billion-dollar investment package for closing the infrastructure gaps in West Africa, through a public-private partnership model. WAIIS is an initiative of President Bio when he was ECOWAS chairman
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