The judicial inquiry into the Programme des Domaines Agricoles Communautaires (PRODAC) is in progress. According to information published in L’Observateur of this Saturday, May 3, 2025, several defendants have been heard by the judges of the financial pole in the framework of this vast scandal of alleged embezzlement of public funds. Among the persons interviewed were Mamina Daffé, former national coordinator of PRODAC, and Ibrahima Cissé, manager of the company Tida, awarded in 2017 a contract for the management of the transit of goods of the programme. The latter were confronted with the expert-accountant Abdoulaye Dramé, author of an audit report considered to be damning. According to that document, a system of false invoices and fictitious payment orders would have been put in place, resulting in a significant financial loss for the State. In particular, Mr Cissé is suspected of having paid Locafrique the sum of CFAF 1.3 billion, of which CFAF 637 million corresponded to transit charges which were considered excessively inflated in relation to the actual amounts. The judiciary is now concerned with tracing all the financial flows, identifying possible internal complicities, as well as the companies that have benefited from contracts suspected of over-billing. The auditions continue. The magistrates instructeurs hope to reconstitute the entire chain of responsibility, in order to locate the responsibilities and guarantee transparency in the management of public funds.
PRODAC: 1,3 billion FCFA in play, the revelations shocks before the judges
