After restricting all of the State’s mobile phone lines and housing expenses, Macky Sall wants to drastically reduce the costs of official vehicles. To this end, the Presidency of the Republic has initiated a long-term vehicle rental program.MackySall continues his policy of rationalising public spending.After restricting all mobile phone lines and housing expenses, MackySall wants to drastically reduce the costs of official vehicles.This, in accordance with the Decree 2021-03 of 6 January 2021 on administrative vehicles.The Presidency of the Republic has thus, according to a statement, « initiated a program of long-term rental of vehicles ».The document mentions that « these vehicles, attached to the Special Garage of the Presidency of the Republic, will be assigned to members of the government and certain officials of the Presidential Cabinet.
The rental indicated shall include the cost of location, the maintenance and charges and the all-risk insurance costs without deductible of the said vehicles.Many dysfunctions have been noted in the management of the fleets of public, para-public and national companies (inefficiency of the procedures and methods of service and maintenance, lack of control of the file of the purchase and localisation of vehicles, among others).
Consequently, this « innovative » program will « reduce the budgetary burdens of the State and rationalise the issue of administrative vehicles as is already the case for the telephone and housing which have allowed the State to save billions« .More than 246 billion disbursed from 2012 to 2020MackySall indicated last year in the Council of Ministers, that « from 2012 to 2020, the State, without parastatalstructures, local authorities and national companies, spent 246 billion 851 million 794 thousand 189 CFA francs on the acquisition, maintenance, repair of vehicles and the purchase of fuel, an annual average of 27.4 billion CFA francs ».As a reminder, the State initiated « an in-depth reform of the methods of acquisition, use and management of administrative vehicles, with the main objectives of reducing budgetary expenditures related to the acquisition, use, repair and maintenance of administrative vehicles, while involving the private sector in meeting the travel needs of the Administration’s structures with a view to rationalising and optimising its vehicle fleet.This reform has led to the application of new regulations, in particular through the Decree 2021-03 of 6 January 2021 on administrative vehicles. »The innovations of the new regulation concern, among other things, « the limitation of the list of rights holders to official vehicles, the abolition of the category of State service vehicles, the abolition of vehicles for service needs and their replacement by a global flat-rate compensation, net of taxes, allocated to a very small list of beneficiaries and the withdrawal of the State from car reparation, maintenance and provision of drivers for the vehicles held by that category of personnel’.To this are added  » lightening of the various state parks by specific procedures for the reform and transfer of vehicles, the identification and recovery of all state vehicles held in surplus by state agents (one vehicle per agent), the return of vehicles of the Motor Garage of the Presidency of the Republic held by persons unrelated to the institution, the transmission of the list of vehicles registered at the level of the Parks of the Presidency of the Republic and not located at the National Gendarmerie in order to identify their holders and recover them, where appropriate’.
By Dialigué FAYE / dialigue@lequotidien.sn

  • Translation by Ndey T. SOSSEH