Solutions to the Accommodation Problem for Low Income Earners in West Africa


Prevalent issues affect the economic, social and political values attribute to the cause of general instability in West Africa. The predominant factor purport to the current debilitating state affairs on a holistic view bear to the region’s disinclination to reform center on socioeconomic, legal, social, financial and political structures, resources and values that demand a widespread reform.  Complicit drug trafficking corrupted the region as a pandemic and invincible activity existing for more than a century in West and Central Africa that lured not only local citizens but to youth themselves motivating to engage in this type of illicit livelihood driven by motives by wealth gaining with sheer efforts and labor. As a social and economic turmoil, all sorts of engagements in illicit drugs from trade to laundering served as central economic activities to be in extreme degrees that resulted the influx of illegal and tantamount amounts in the billion to trillion range of cash based transactions that surpassed levels to damage legitimate businesses and spur widespread violence that, in turn, took populous damage in tolls in all levels of society resulting to social collapse. Surging to a political viewpoint due to the severity and peripheral characteristics drug trafficking cause, with delibitating effects in folds, such a subversive disposition called concerns on international levels with ECOWAS and the United Nations to have dubbed the problem of drug trafficking to have affected the peace and security in West Africa. From the legal viewpoint the threat to the rule of law is prominent to the highest levels: the immense volume of criminal activity resulting to drug cases delivered to the court systems who to scales become overburdened and intimidating that overwhelm the judicial system and police force response to cope. The significance of peace and security concerns on a particular region on worrisome levels percolates to cover adverse economic, social and political instabilities (Shehu, 2009, p.5). From the onset of security measures in the region to suppress complicit activities, ended the region in economic shanty resulting to a sheer margin of jobs available, and hence low income in terms of GDP. Studies evident on this aspect emphasize the scant statistics of foreign direct investments into the region before 2007 at which sheered the region into reform (Shehu, 2009, p.8).


Studies provide with hope to the least solutions at modest degrees with reference to gradual recovery mechanisms to curb such an apparent, invincible problem in Africa, not only confined to the western region of the continent: A model study found in the case of Botswana in its recent decades to pave its economic recovery from its poorest economic stage to a middle income country borne from its commitment to the fiscal and policy management discipline imperative in a national level towards urbanization, was made through engagements to peripheral discussion in a policy level to cope challenges not only centered over land and housing development, but resolving the employment and income issues as building blocks of economic indicators (Mosha, 2010, p.4). Inference from this study derives the possibility to empower West Africa within its regional capability through cooperation to overcome these mammoth challenges if tenets attribute to such indicators are taken into account in the reform process. The United Nations Cooperation on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) sources reveal economic recovery in some specific regions of West Africa manifest in the drastic surge in foreign direct investment inflows after 2007 as the onset period of the end of drug trafficking in the area (Shehu, 2009, pp.8-9).


The following principles act as underlying guidelines to the reconstruction phase in the region:


Financial Guard. A sturdy local and international banking and financial legal system should be on the guard against illicit monies which inflow. Since it proved evident that illicit activity toppled legal systems and businesses widespread in the region, reconstruction and restructuring on these building blocks is imperative towards social refinement. While the reform phase is onset, the banking system is still said to be on the vulnerable stage through existing trenches of illegal activity in the country and hence the likely possibility to a permeable trade flow of illicit financial resources (Shehu, 2009, p.7). A complete reform is achievable through the close cooperation and cohesive discipline with the United Nations, the World Bank and IMF to finance, devise and restore legal and financial regulation restructure planning and implementing complete resources provided that police the flow of trade activities .


Educational Policy Formation. Sturdy educational policies should promulgate to suppress through massive campaigning the innate mentality of acquiring riches through illegal means. These discourage school attendance among the youth and leave illiteracy in high rates. It should also coordinate with nongovernmental and community based organizations and norms to campaign long term educational goals and adult reeducation as a slogan for social reform throughout communities in massive campaigns. Advocate groups should lobby legislative and judicial bodies diverse pool of resources with financing a priority to programs of such organizations and implement into detail parlance penal laws to prevent human trafficking coordinated with international law enforcement communities and to form local law enforcement personnel to prevent into resort.



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