Dakar, Jan 21 (APS) – The Circle of Public Administrators (CAP) declares its support for the reforms announced at the conference of public administrators and managers and assures the government of its desire to support them.
”We will ensure (…) the implementation of the guidelines [du] President of the Republic with regard to the governance of parapublic sector entities,” said the president of the CAP, Lansana Gagny Sakho, in a press release received by the APS on Tuesday.
The body headed by Mr. Sakho, also chairman of the board of directors of the Agency responsible for the promotion of investments and major works, brings together presidents of governance bodies of companies in the parapublic sector.
“We (…) aim to establish ourselves as a “think tank” to participate in all the major reforms that the government intends to undertake,” assures the CAP.
He addresses his “warm congratulations” to the President of the Republic, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, and to the Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, for the organization of the first conference of public administrators and managers, which took place Tuesday in Diamniadio (west ).
The CAP believes that the organization of the said conference ‘is in line with the vision of the President of the Republic who places the modernization of public administration at the heart of his system of governance’.
Its members support the desire expressed by the Head of State to give sustained priority to the optimal use of national resources, the preservation of public heritage and the importance of anchoring a systematic culture management control, accountability and the fight against fraud and corruption.
The CAP believes that ”deliberative bodies (public administrators and managers) play a role of great importance in the performance of parapublic sector entities”.
-The President of the Republic announced, on the occasion of the conference of public administrators and managers, reforms aimed at increasing the supervision of parapublic sector companies by the State, to force them to stick strictly to their prerogatives and to exercise “strict regulatory supervision” over them.
”I ask the Prime Minister to ensure the rigorous application of the orientation law of April 19, 2022 relating to the parapublic sector, which aims to (…) control the management of public resources and to verify the relevance of the sector’s interventions parapublic”, declared Bassirou Diomaye Faye.
”I recall the requirement for the deliberative and executive bodies of parapublic sector entities to stick strictly to their prerogatives,” he added.
All important decisions by public and parapublic establishments, recruitment, budgeting or partnerships, must be validated by the ministerial or interministerial authority concerned, according to the Head of State.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye noted several weaknesses in the public administration. He spoke of an administration ”frozen in patterns” inherited from colonization, of a ”hypertrophied parapublic sector”, of ”complex and costly public services”, etc.
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