The Pastef cave and its 4000 authors
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It is at the very moment when no one is waiting for the famous « Project » that Pastef’s bigwigs have been harping on about for a decade that they pulled it out of the hat of… Victor Ndiaye, the smart boss of the Performance Firm. This good man is said to have already worked on Macky Sall’s PSE, whose ambitious horizon sets its limits in 2035, before unfortunately stalling in 2024.
That’s good, President Diomaye Faye and his inevitable Prime Minister, with a blissful optimism, are pushing the cork much further, until 2050, and it is still this good Victor Ndiaye, in the same republican and patriotic spirit, who is sticking to it.
There are some who were born under a lucky star…
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The problem is that the document in question, presented at the Abdou Diouf International Conference Center, Cicad – one of the white elephants of this bloodthirsty forger Macky Sall -, would represent the summary of the deeply patriotic reflection produced in ten years of hard work by the four thousand Pastef executives…
On the internet, when observing this little masterpiece of about twenty pages of outdated romanticism, banal generalities and rustic reveries gathered under the appearance of a robust baobab tree, a gloomy spirit allows himself this mean comment: « Each of the Pastef executives must have contributed a syllable… »
I don’t know about you, but for me, the Senegal 2050 Reference Framework has something surreal: for a vision, twenty-five years is short, and for a program, it’s very long…
This week will be the opportunity that the Prime Minister will not miss to illustrate his disagreements with the agreements and the forbidden connections. After his resounding declarations before the Japanese ambassador and the president of the Japanese cooperation agency, Jica, on the subject of the « five-year » or « ten-year » variations, he will continue in front of the audience of guests at the Cicad, to present to us the « four axes » of the Senegal 2050 Framework… After « France dégage », it is French, get lost?
If voters send Pastef and his guru back into parliamentary opposition on November 17, 2024, the future ex-Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who will have governed for only seven and a half months, will be able to retreat to Parliament, at best at the head of his parliamentary group where he can sit alongside the colourful Guy Marius Sagna, but above all the picturesque Bara Ndiaye, a clairvoyant in his spare time, negotiating in formidable magic powders and cabalistic belts that save you from inexplicable twists of fate.
With such a team, control of government action is assured.
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A return to square one, where his irresistible rise begins, while he denounced the errors of the Macky regime, from clandestine envelopes to MPs, to title deeds waltzing from illegitimate owners to illegal owners.
I can see some people jumping at the mere thought of this: Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko returning to the parliamentary opposition on November 17, 2024… Yet this is the mission that Macky Sall has set for himself by giving up his Parisian cheese of the “Four Ps” and no doubt some other UN strapontin recently announced. Does he really have a choice? Speaking to Bloomberg TV colleagues, it would be a, let’s say, uh, patriotic impulse that would push him to return to politics to “strengthen” the opposition. Should we laugh or cry?
The truth is much more trivial: since Pastef came to power, the attacks on his management, his probity, and even his cruelty have not stopped. The aggression he suffered from a certain Aïssa Camara on the Royal Air Maroc flight is just a foretaste of it…
The former President is said to be responsible for the carnage of the eighty young defenders of freedoms, in addition to unforgivable embezzlements and other unspeakable crimes that could amount to high treason. Moreover, one of the leading figures of the current regime, El Malick Ndiaye, who is not afraid of words, is calling for the establishment of a high court of justice to make Macky and his gang atone for their crimes.
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There is only an absolute majority in Parliament that would be able to indict him and his henchmen before dragging them before a firing squad after the reinstatement of the death penalty, no doubt. At best, Ousmane Sonko and his government would spend their time revealing his misdeeds in such a way that no international institution would want to mix Macky Sall’s name with his image and reputation. The proof is that when a Senegalese woman with a bad nose attacks him, it is on the side of the insolent woman that the government shows its solidarity.
In the current opposition, Macky Sall will be in very pleasant company: Bougane Guèye Dany, Barthélemy Dias, Serigne Moustapha Sy, Thierno Alassane Sall, for the most virulent… We can see them exchanging hugs and making love, less than a year after their explosive disenchantments. There will also be the torrid reunion with his former comrades from the regiment and the bohemian years, the PDS, whose painful separation will fuel the news stories and make headlines in the tabloids. And then, the cherry on the cake, he will probably meet his former Prime Minister and candidate for his succession at the Palace, Amadou Ba, with whom relations have gone from warm to polar; they will have to explain themselves, if necessary, on the short circuits of the 2024 Presidential election, to stop the dangers that await them both. If Pastef controls the majority in the National Assembly, they will both go before a high court of justice acquired to the truth of the winners, before going to purgatory, arm in arm preferably… In the meantime, over the past seven months, it must be acknowledged that there has not been a dull moment: for example, the colourful appointments, the latest of which concern forty-five Pastef activists who are pushing the supreme sacrifice of the patriot to the point of giving up brilliant careers to try their hand at the thankless role of mission managers at the Presidency.
To lighten the mood, we can also note the controversies spread out in public in the management of Onas, whose outgoing CEO publicly accuses the supervising minister of having fired him for refusing to enter into a private contract with his protégés; we may have listened to the minister, but not even a sigh… Great pain is silent, as we know.
If only that were all: at the Rural Electrification Agency, Aser, too, we have the feeling that it has become, not the cave of Pastef and its four thousand authors, but a Spanish inn with embarrassing questions about several billion CFA francs that Hispanics have already paid for the execution of a contract and asking what fate is reserved for their investments.
A discord that sees the dismissal of the supreme policeman of Public Procurement, the head of Arcop, and that is crowned by the exit of the Minister of Women. Maïmouna Dièye, who is not afraid of anything, takes over from Yassine Fall this week, in terms of funny statements: « even if you had embezzled this money, yâ tèye! », she publicly defends Abasse Fall, the head of Pastef in Dakar, at the heart of the controversy that the journalist Adama Gaye, who has been very angry in recent years, has been fueling from his exile.
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As if that were not enough, isn’t it that Abdoul Mbaye, who sees the end of Macky’s regime with unfeigned pleasure, is worrying about a loan from the current Executive in Eurobonds, or four hundred and fifty billion CFA francs. An operation that the IMF finds pointless, to which no one provides an answer concerning the absence of a call for tenders and the payment of possible commissions that its initiators should receive…
It is in the middle of this cabaret atmosphere that President Bassirou Diomaye Faye will say a few words about their obligation to set an example and the risks of disenchantment of the Senegalese. He will warn offenders who should not count on any government solidarity…
The campaign for the Legislative elections, which starts on October 27, is almost launched: in this Spanish inn with the appearance of an Ali Baba’s cave that serves as our political stage, all that is missing is a feminist touch… For example, a nice little video of Adji Sarr in a sultry blood-red negligee, to motivate the candidates, that would be impressive!
By Ibou FALL
