Special funds: 50 Hajj tickets financed, according to Aminata Touré
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Seneweb
According to Aminata Touré on RFM, 50 tickets for the pilgrimage to Mecca were financed by the National Assembly’s special funds. The Forum du justiciable, through Babacar Ba, urges Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko to refuse these benefits, in the name of consistency with his criticism of these funds.
Babacar Ba, president of the NGO Forum du justiciable, calls on Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and the leadership of the National Assembly on the X network, after comments by Aminata Touré on RFM radio. According to Ms Touré, 50 tickets for the pilgrimage to Mecca are financed by the special funds allocated to the National Assembly. For the NGO, Ousmane Sonko, who has long denounced these funds, should refuse these benefits "without the slightest hesitation".
Babacar Ba writes: "One cannot denounce the opacity of special funds while profiting from the benefits they provide." He adds that "consistency between words and actions is the first test of good governance". According to him, if these benefits are acceptable when they benefit the National Assembly, the blockage of the budget and the criticism of these funds are more a matter of political calculation than of a principled fight.
The amending budget had already been suspended at the end of October, after a gas alert that interrupted its examination in the Assembly. The controversy over special funds is part of this institutional deadlock between the executive and the deputies.
