On Thursday October 3, 2024, a palpable tension marked the show News evening broadcast on the TFM channel, where the Minister of Education, Moustapha Guirassy, was a guest. The show quickly took a confrontational turn, from the first question asked by journalist Chérif Diop. Indeed, the latter directly challenged the minister with a formulation considered provocative: “Why does your government seem to have a phobia of criticism? “. This introduction immediately triggered a reaction from the minister.
Moustapha Guirassy expressed his dissatisfaction with the wording of the question, believing that it could have been asked differently. He stressed that the term “criticism phobia” was inappropriate and that it would have been better to seek clarification on the recent arrests. The journalist, far from allowing himself to be destabilized, retorted by affirming that he had complete freedom in the way he asked his questions, insisting on the fact that the minister simply had to answer them or not.
The tone of the exchange quickly rose, with everyone sticking to their position. Chérif Diop defended his role as journalist, saying it was up to him to decide the form and substance of the questions, while Moustapha Guirassy insisted that he had come to discuss educational issues, such as the start of the school year. school, and not to confront this type of debate.
The situation escalated again when another thorny subject was raised by the journalist. Chérif Diop tried to establish a link between remarks made by Ousmane Sonko about foreign schools and the critical reaction of the National Secular Council in Senegal. Again, the minister rejected the journalist’s interpretation, saying there was no connection between the Council’s critics, who represent Senegalese, and the foreign schools mentioned by Sonko.
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