After the initiation of the procedure to lift the parliamentary immunity of MP Farba Ngom, at the start of the week, the MPs will meet in plenary today for the ratification of the ad hoc committee.
The deputies of the 15th legislature are convened today, Friday January 17, 2025, from 11 a.m. They must examine the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of their colleague Mouhamadou Ngom known as Farba, specifies a note signed by the President of the National Assembly, Malick Ndiaye. According to the document, the agenda concerns “the examination of a draft resolution for the constitution of the ad hoc committee responsible for ruling on the request for lifting of the parliamentary immunity of MP Mouhamadou Ngom”.
Yesterday, members of the Law Committee met on the same agenda. The ad hoc commission, made up of 11 members, will be presented to the deputies during this plenary, which should allow the ratification of the said commission. On his Facebook account, MP Amadou Ba from Pastef, 5th vice-president of the National Assembly, revealed the composition of this ad hoc commission: 9 MPs from Pastef, 1 from Takku Wallu and 1 from the non-registered group. It is after this stage that the law commission will begin to carry out its investigation. It can hear the MP concerned who can also be represented by another MP of their choice.
After this stage, the ad hoc commission will make its report which will be presented during another plenary. It is during this that the deputies will decide by a vote on the lifting or not of the parliamentary immunity of the deputy. “During the debates opened by the National Assembly in plenary session on questions of immunity, only the chairman of the committee, the rapporteur, the government, the deputy or his defender and a speaker against can speak,” states Article 52 of the Internal Regulations of the National Assembly.
-The procedure for lifting Farba Ngom’s parliamentary immunity follows a referral from the Minister of Justice with a view to a judicial investigation concerning the deputy mayor of Agnam. The deputy Farba Ngom, also responsible for the organization and mobilization of the Alliance for the Republic (Apr) and elected on the departmental list of the “Takku Wallu Senegal” coalition in Matam, would be involved in a case of “ suspicious transactions estimated at more than 125 billion FCfa” which the financial prosecutor’s office is currently investigating. These transactions were discovered thanks to a report from Centif (National Financial Information Processing Unit).
OUMAR KANDE
