Thiès, May 5 (APS) – Municipal councilors from the department of Thiès set up, Saturday in the rail city, the office of the departmental section of the Collective of Municipal Councilors of Senegal (COCMS), a structure in gestation, which sets itself the mission of upgrading the status of municipal elected officials.
Ousseynou Fall, municipal councilor at the town hall of Thiès Est, was appointed as coordinator of the Collective in the department of Thiès, following a constitutive general assembly organized in the deliberations room of the town hall of Thiès.
The COCMS, said Ousseynou Fall, is a “framework for consultation, exchange, sharing, decision and action”.
Its objectives are to “defend the material and moral interests of all municipal councilors, to strengthen the capacities of municipal councilors and to establish partnerships with technical and financial partners”.
The Collective, through the voice of Ousseynou Fall, transmitted on this occasion its grievances to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, relating to the revaluation of the status of the municipal councilor, health care, the increase in sessional allowances and the implementation set up a housing cooperative for municipal councilors.
The initiative to bring to the baptismal font a collective of municipal councilors was born in early January at Parcelles assainies, in Dakar, following the announcement of the revaluation of the remuneration of mayors and their deputies, indicated Samba Ndiaye, member of the provisional national coordination, who came to supervise the installation of this office.
After meeting in Whatsapp groups, the first members organized a press conference, then a seminar in February in Rufisque, where an ad-hoc committee was born responsible for supervising the process of creating the collective on a large scale. national.
“We hope, by the end of July, to have our national structure,” said Amadou Coumba Ndiaye, member of the provisional national coordination.
“Each deputy mayor costs his municipality 2.4 million FCFA per year, each mayor, 18 million per year and each municipal councilor, 18 million, each municipal councilor costs his municipality 50,000 per year. We believe that it is not fair,” said Ousseynou Fall.
He believes that if the 29,680 municipal councilors of the 557 communes of Senegal organize themselves, they can have what they can achieve their objectives, if only through a network of solidarity.
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