In the Grand Jury program this Sunday, September 29, 2024, the general director of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), Fadilou Keita, declared that there is “a report from 2013 or 2014 […]in which it is clearly mentioned that Mr. Ahmed Khalifa Niass and Mr. Samuel Sarr owe 3.5 billion to the State of Senegal” as part of the purchase of vehicles that allegedly belong to the State.
Responding to this accusation on Public.SN, Ahmed Khalifa Niass insisted that he owes no francs to the State. “I don’t know where the CDC office is. I don’t know anyone at the CDC. I’ve never received a single cent from the CDC. What he said is an untruth. I challenges him: instead of continuing to talk, all he has to do is publish the file, get my signature, he said.
Ahmed Khalifa Niass predicts a dark future at the CDC. “The company he manages is more powerful than a bank. He cannot manage it, he is incapable of it. He is a driver from Jakarta and he was entrusted with a truck. And the company he manages, I predict, this is going to be the biggest financial scandal in the country. The director of the CDC, normally, is a technician, he declared Ahmed Khalifa Niass clarified that it is the State which is responsible. owes more than 5 billion FCFA And that concerns vehicles that he had provided to the President at the time And these are 20 luxury BMWs and 20 Mercedes 600. President Abdoulaye Wade had made the reception. the courtyards of the palace under the cameras of public television, he added.
