The Deputy Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, says the ECOWAS Parliament is deploying parliamentary diplomacy mechanisms to mitigate Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger’s threats to exit the sub-regional bloc. Kalu stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on the sidelines of the committee’s delocalised meeting in the Ivorian capital city. He said there was no cause for alarm over the bloc’s perceived existential threat posed by violent extremism, and the exit threats from ECOWAS by the three West African countries. “There a…