Report on the establishment of a Lagos- Mombasa highway authority and of a trans African road fund

Abstract

This note explored the need to establish such an authority which would have legal status and would be empowered to make loans enter into contracts and appear in court on behalf of the governments of its member states. This need arose from the fact that the implementation of the later phases of the project would require governments to undertake commitments and the existing trans-African Highway bureau which had been established within the ECA transport Division of ECA an organ of the United Nations Secretariat was not legally competent to obtain those commitments.