It was on Thursday 26 September 703, where the Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and his government faced the press to expose the economic situation of Senegal. In taking the floor, the Prime Minister had directly indexed the former President of the Republic Macky Sall and his government, specifying that the latter had “lied, manipulated the national and international opinion on the management of the country”. Ousmane Sonko had announced that the Pays de la Téranga is in the fourth basement giving a rendezvous to the Senegalese population for the next audits of the Court of Accounts. Following the publication of the report on the situation of public finances from 2019 to March 2024, the government again faced the press, in the administrative building of Mamadou Dia, to remind the Senegalese population of the alarming situation. Speaking on the occasion of his speech, the Minister for the Economy of the Plan and Co-operation, Mr Abdourahmane Sarr, maintained that: “The Senate has committed itself to a new spirit of truth and transparency, nothing lasting can be done in the minds of the people”. Following the logic of his speech, Mr Abdourahmane Sarr affirms that the audit of the Court of Auditors has confirmed what had been said, with a greater amplitude on the deficits and on the debt that has been accumulated in recent years. He explains that: “many expenditures have been incurred outside the normal budgetary circuits and without parliamentary authorizations. These practices of the outgoing regime were facilitated by budgetary measures which consisted partly in allocating budgetary transfers to State deposit accounts in order to be able to make additional unauthorised expenditure in order to be able to service the hidden debt contracted without parliamentary authorisation.’ Abdourahmane Sarr adds that “in order to give a legal character to these practices, the departing authorities issued des lettres de confort or des lettres de couvertures budgétaires so that the works in question not provided for by the finance laws voted could be done”.
Report of the Court of Auditors: Between shock and despair, the Minister of Economy shows the way of hope
