The ECOWAS Parliament Saturday unanimously adopted its Draft Supplementary Act, which seeks to transform the Parliament from an advisory institution to a lawmaking one. This followed the conclusion of debate and adoption of the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Enhancement of the Powers of the ECOWAS Parliament during its 2012 First Extra-Ordinary Session in Abuja. The Parliament has also come down hard on child trafficking and labour, describing both as a twin evil that must be blotted out from the face of the West African sub-region. The sub-regional Parliament also decided to re-admit its members from Guinea Bissau who were affected after the ECOWAS Commission suspended the nation due to a coup d’état. Addressing the closing session Saturday, Speaker of the Parliament, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, told his colleagues that the quest for the enhancement of the powers of the Parliament was informed by the need to make it a true legislative institution, noting that a legislature primarily connotes a lawmaking body and that anything to the contrary detracted from the essence of any legislative institution. Ekweremadu described the Draft Supplementary Act as “detailed, firm, fair, and in conformity with international best standards relating to supranational legislative institutions the world over”.