It won’t be another report. This is the assurance made by civil society organisations on the application of the recommendations of the Court of Auditors on managers of the Force Covid-19 fund. They plan to organise a rally at the Place de la Nation to launch the fight.The Court of Auditors report on the Response and Solidarity Fund against the effects of Covid-19 (Force Covid-19) continues to cause a lot of debates.Civil society organisations have banded together to demand legal action.AfrikaJomCenter, Osiwa, Ondh, Ong3d, Lsdh, Raddho, Réseausiggiljiguen, Frapp and Nittudeug hosted a press conference.They have made an appointment with the People on December 30 at the Place de la Nation to demand the satisfaction of 4 points.These are the resignation of the offending authorities, the reimbursement of the sums embezzled or the confiscation of material or land assets, the opening of a judicial investigation for each person named and the setting up of a follow-up committee with members of civil society to follow up on the recommendations of the Court of Auditors.“To show you the seriousness of the hour, the Court of Auditors has never made recommendations for the opening of judicial information in a report.Everyone is responsible,” said ValdiodioNdiaye.AliouSané of Y’en a marre makes practically the same observation.For the activist, “these diverted billions will not be digestible.The pandemic was sold to us as the public enemy.We have silenced our differences to go to war against this virus.773billion were mobilized, including 651 billion from technical and financial partners, 102 billion from the State and 19 billion from the People.When they imposed the curfew on the People, they stole our money.How many lives could have been saved if the money was used wisely?For SafiétouDiop of the Siggiljiguen network, these hijackings are « acts of treachery ».According to MoundiayeCissé of the 3D NGO, if MackySall does not apply the recommendations of the Court of Auditors, « we are going towards the Presidential election of 2024.We will ask the candidates to commit to launching the proceedings after the elections.”As a reminder, the abolition of all administrative controls and of the prior approval has favoured the occurrence of several irregularities in the execution of expenditure eligible for the resources of the Response and Solidarity Fund against the effects of Covid-19.In the fund’s audit report, the Court of Auditors noted, among other things, an accumulation in the payment of premiums, over-invoicing in the acquisition of certain products, in particular rice, a selection of equipment suppliers with no experience proven in the field…In the payment of fees to members of the National Committee for the Management of the Epidemic (Cnge), more than 313 million was unduly paid, an over-invoicing of more than 2 billion CFA francs was also detected in the purchase of rice intended to households…The Court of Auditors thus asked the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, to proceed to open a judicial investigation.By Malick GAYE / mgaye@lequotidien.sn

  • Translation by Ndey T.SOSSEH