During a face-to-face meeting with the press in Tivaouane on land, the mayor of Tivaouane took the opportunity to comment on the 2021 Ofnac report citing his company in relation to the acquisition of food and other products and provision of transport services as part of the fight against Covid-19.
“I said, I will work together with my daughter and I have appointed her as general manager of the company.”
“When I went to Ofnac, they asked me several questions and I answered all the questions. The report spoke in the conditional, should have, so on. They spoke in the conditional in the report to me concerning, it’s presumptions or it’s doubts… What I said, there is no doubt…, the company I had 20 years before being mayor, or 20 years before being a deputy When I returned to the national assembly in 2012, they gave us forms to fill out each one’s situation, I filled out about my situation to show them that I am the owner of. company…, I said, I will work in collaboration with my daughter and I appointed her as general manager of the company,” he said.
Returning to the acquisition of this market, Mr. Diop Sy added “It went to a call for tenders, it was selected and I saw the extent of the work during transport during Covid, I I said that, it’s a challenge, we have to try to succeed because Senegal has never done one… When I arrived, I already found that people had made a budget of 6 billion 800 million of CFA francs for the transport of foodstuffs I spoke with the minister I said Minister Mansour does not take the price of 50 CFA francs per tonne kilometer because if you take the amount of 50 CFA francs per tonne kilometer. you’re going to reach the 6 billion and tomorrow people are going to blame you for distributing money…So, we took the prices of Senegal’s internal trade…”.
“There were 6 other carriers.”
Before specifying “I was not the only transporter of the goods. There were 6 other transporters. What does Ofnac say? There was not 1 franc taken there above, there is no overbilling, there is no money that concerns us in relation to that… but Ofnac says given that I am a member of parliament, it is because of that that I was given part of the market, outside the market it was a call for tenders. We are not blamed for having taken 1 kilo, for not having brought a single transport which did not arrive at its destination. …”.
