Dakar, Jan 14 (APS) – The working and friendship visit of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko to Mauritania and the imminent lifting of the parliamentary immunity of MP Mouhamadou Ngom known as Farba Ngom are the most prominent subjects in the daily newspapers received Monday to the Senegalese Press Agency (APS).
”Dakar and Nouakchott are oiling the machine”, says Le Soleil. ”On a friendship and working visit to Nouakchott, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, at the head of a strong ministerial delegation, identified with his Mauritanian counterpart, Moctar Ould Diay, the bases of this new dynamic. From energy to infrastructure, from fishing to livestock (…) the opportunities are numerous,” writes the publication.
According to the newspaper, “the official opening of the first well of the Grand Tortue Ahméyim (GTA) project seems to have given a boost to bilateral cooperation between Senegal and Mauritania.”
”Sonko welcomed with great fanfare”, notes EnQuête, recalling that ‘Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has been on an official visit to Mauritania since last Sunday’. ”This diplomatic mission highlights major issues such as energy, transport, security and migration with the aim of strengthening the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the two neighboring countries,” notes the newspaper.
L’Info reports that ”this meeting between the ministerial delegations of the two countries made it possible to discuss means to consolidate bilateral cooperation and diversify strategic partnerships”. ”In their opening speech, the two heads of government magnified the excellence of relations between Senegal and Mauritania and insisted on the need to strengthen them at all levels,” indicates the publication.
The same newspaper echoes the remarks made in Nouakchott by the Prime Minister on the report of the Court of Auditors, during a meeting with the Senegalese community, on the sidelines of his official visit. ”Ousmane Sonko declared to this community that he had received the report from the Court of Auditors on the situation in the country inherited from the Macky Sall regime. “Sonko warns of the extent of the damage”, according to l’Info.
“Sonko blows the flames,” said Source A. “When the Court of Auditors’ report is made public, the Senegalese will know the extent of the damage,” declared the head of government quoted by the newspaper.
The same publication announces that the office of the National Assembly was summoned Tuesday afternoon. »This meeting will be followed by that of the Conference of Presidents. Even if the agenda is not revealed, everything suggests that this summons is linked to the 125 billion FCFA file announced by the Financial Judicial Prosecutor’s Office. And for which he asked the Minister of Justice to lift the parliamentary immunity of the official griot of the former President of the Republic, Macky Sall.
According to L’As, “things seem more and more clear now: Farba Ngom will undoubtedly be the first bigwig of the old regime to be put to the guillotine as part of the accountability initiated by the new state authorities.” ‘.
”As proof, at the National Assembly, the conference of presidents is convened today in the afternoon to begin the process leading to the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of the mayor of Agnam”, indicates the newspaper , speaking of “suspicious speed of the Assembly”.
“The National Assembly takes action,” a poster on the front page of Sud Quotidien, noting that “according to consistent sources within the National Assembly, this summons of deputies is part of the accountability procedure initiated by the Judicial Financial Pool (PJF) against dignitaries of the old regime including the deputy mayor of the commune of Agnam, Mouhamadou Ngom known as Farba Ngom”.
Libération reports that “the Minister of Justice, seized by the Financial Prosecutor’s Office, wrote to the National Assembly to request the lifting of Farba Ngom’s parliamentary immunity.” And the procedure will be triggered today in the hemicycle.
According to the same newspaper, the report from the National Financial Information Processing Unit (CENTIF) reveals among other things ”more than eight suspicious transaction reports (STRs) received from banks, transfers made by Sifico in favor of Farba Ngom, his SCI and his brother after payments from the Treasury.
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