Lompoul sinking: Amadou Ba calls for jobs for young people
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Seneweb
Former Senegalese prime minister Amadou Ba expressed his sadness after the sinking of a pirogue off Lompoul, in Kébémer department, and called for real job prospects for young people to stem clandestine emigration. He offered his condolences to the bereaved families, according to his message published on X.
Amadou Ba, president of the New Responsibility / Jamm-ji party and former prime minister of Senegal, called for "real job prospects" for young people after the sinking of a pirogue off Lompoul, in Kébémer department, according to his statements on X reported by Seneweb.
"So many lives lost at sea and so many families plunged into mourning... These repeated tragedies must challenge our collective conscience," he wrote, offering his condolences to the bereaved families. For the former head of government, the response cannot be limited to the fight against people-smuggling networks: he believes it is urgent to give young people the means to build their future in Senegal.
His intervention came the day after a death toll of 34 was announced in the sinking, the deadliest of the week in Kébémer, and after calls to act by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall. Amadou Ba thus joins the series of Senegalese political figures prompted by the state's mobilisation after the Lompoul sinking, announced on 8 November, and by Khalifa Sall's call issued the same day.
