Dakar, Jan 17 (APS) – The solemn hearing of the Courts and Tribunals of the year 2025, chaired for the first time by the Head of State, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, and the case of deputy Farba Ngom, whose justice demands the lifting of immunityparliamentary ity following suspicions of money laundering are the subjects highlighted in the daily newspapers received by the APS on Friday.
The Head of State declared the judicial year 2025 open on Thursday, in the presence of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, the President of the National Assembly, Malick Ndiaye and the Minister of Justice, Ousmane Diagne.
”Facing the judicial family, President Faye recalled the importance of justice in the Republic as a guarantor of fundamental freedoms and social balance. The reforms initiated by his regime in the sector were also at the heart of the head of state’s speech. On the theme relating to the right to strike, the President of the Republic calls for ensuring that the right to strike is exercised with respect for public order and the general interest,” reports L’Info.
The title reads: ”Justice facing Diomaye’s mirror”. The newspaper notes that ”the President of the Republic called in his speech on the legal world to be open to questioning and to question itself”. ”He also invited the judicial company to the effort of introspection to strengthen national cohesion in order to avoid falling back into the shortcomings of the recent period 2021-2023,” adds the publication.
”(Diomaye’s) lesson to magistrates,” said WalfQuotidien, estimating that ”the context could not be more opportune for the President of the Republic, than the ceremony of the re-entry of the Courts and Tribunals, to provide a lesson in ethics to magistrates”. ”In his speech, while reminding them of their missions, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, in a veiled manner, challenges them on the dark moments that justice has gone through over the last three years,” notes Walf.
Sud Quotidien is interested in ”the establishment of a committee for drafting the recommendations of the Assises de la justice” announced by the President of the Republic.
”He also returned to the lawyers’ requests relating to legal aid, in response to a question from the President of the Bar Association, Mamadou Seck. The First President of the Supreme Court, Mahamadou Mansour Mbaye, for his part pleaded for a rereading of legal texts and the preservation of the real estate assets of the judicial institution”, reports Sud speaking “of justice in diagnostic mode ”.
The Observer underlines that this solemn ceremony was also ”an opportunity for the President of the Bar Association to plead in favor of their profession and for the First President of the Supreme Court to review the conditions of the right to strike” .
-Le Soleil has “The right to strike under debate” on its front page. The theme of this solemn return to school was “The right to strike and the preservation of public order”.
According to the newspaper, “the President of the Republic, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, called for a responsible exercise of the right to strike.” »This right, according to him, is not exercised in anarchy.
The national daily also returned to the journey of Farba Ngom, ”Mackey Sall’s right-hand man”, in the news because of his supposed involvement in a money laundering case following a report by the National Financial Information Processing Unit (CENTIF).
The Minister of Justice, seized by the Financial Prosecutor’s Office, wrote to the National Assembly to request the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of Farba Ngom, as part of a vast investigation into suspicious money laundering activities whose value is provisionally estimated at more than 125 billion CFA Francs.
According to Les Echos, ‘Farba commits four tenors of the bar and faces”. ”The Alliance for the Republic (APR) is also in battle order to extricate Farba Ngom from the gates of the current regime which, according to them, seeks to imprison him unjustly. Several officials and allies of this party attended the press briefing yesterday to show their determination to protect Farba Ngom at all costs,” writes the newspaper.
”Farba Ngom in resistance, aperitifs and allies in shields”, headlined by Vox Populi.
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