Ousmane Sonko pleads for the sanitation of the Senegalese Administration

Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko chaired, this Monday, December 23, the final of the first edition of the Gov'Athon competition, held at the Abdou Diouf International Conference Center (CICAD) in Diamniadio. In his speech, he pleaded for a thorough clean-up of the Senegalese administration, which he considers facing numerous challenges.

“The biggest fight for the coming months and years is that of cleaning up our Administration which suffers from many ills. The Administration must once again become a tool at the service of the citizen,” declared the Prime Minister.

Ousmane Sonko also spoke out about the choices of using foreign service providers for the production of software, to the detriment of the solutions offered by Senegalese companies.

“The choice to use foreign service providers from North America which certainly cost ten times more and for which we did not even have the keys and which cost us much more money from amendment to amendment, we had to each time paying a few billion more,” he explained.

Ousmane Sonko stressed that these choices illustrate ill-advised decisions, which do not favor the emergence of Senegalese companies.

“This is the typical example of bad choices which do not result from a rationality which integrates the encouragement that the State must provide to local and national research and the emergence of small structures which will conquer the continent and the world,” said the Prime Minister.