The Minister of Employment and Relations with Institutions, Abass Fall, recently spoke about the reforms underway to improve the management of public entities, during his appearance on the program En Vérité on radio Sénégal Internationale (RSI). According to him, efforts are being made at the level of the Office of Organization and Methods (BOM) as well as at the General Secretariat of the Government to deal with issues linked to duplicate agencies, the refocusing of State missions and the rationalization of structures. public.
The minister specified that work is underway to review and optimize the functioning of government agencies, in order to avoid unnecessary overlap and make public services more efficient.
However, Abass Fall also addressed a delicate issue regarding past recruitment practices in the public sector, particularly after the presidential election. He spoke of what he described as a “questionable period” during which recruitments of a political nature were allegedly carried out, without regard for competence or necessity. He gave the example of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Communication, where, according to him, decrees had been modified to allow assistants to obtain excessive salaries, ranging from 2 to 3 million FCFA.
The Minister of Employment thus expressed the need to restore order and rationalize these practices, in order to guarantee more rigorous and fair management of public finances. According to him, this reorganization work aims to eliminate abuses and strengthen the efficiency of public institutions, while ensuring that recruitment is based on criteria of competence and real need.