Rejected supplementary budget: school must not pay, Diop warns
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Seneweb
Elhadji Mansour Diop, director of Aristide Le Dantec Hospital, warned political leaders on Saturday in Mbam during a ceremony dedicated to academic excellence. According to Seneweb, he warned that schools must not suffer from the conflict between the executive and legislature after the rejection of the supplementary budget bill.
The director of Aristide Le Dantec Hospital, Elhadji Mansour Diop, warned the political class on Saturday that schools must not bear the consequences of the National Assembly’s rejection of the supplementary budget bill. According to him, disputes between the executive and legislature must not affect pupils, teachers and families.
A founding member of Kiiraay, he was speaking in Mbam, in Foundiougne Department, during the second edition of the Day of Excellence, dedicated to academic achievement. In front of administrative authorities, elected officials and residents, he recalled that the education budget funds classrooms to be built, teachers to be recruited, scholarships to be awarded and the future of a generation. Echoing President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s ambition, he called for a school system that guarantees equal opportunities.
The statement follows the rejection, on 3 November, of the government’s 2026 supplementary budget by MPs.
