“Just yesterday, I paid homage to him at his home in Nioro”

When he heard the news of the death of Mamadou Moustapha Bâ, he was in the middle of the electoral campaign and on the road to Gossas from Bambey. Amadou Bâ, former Prime Minister and head of the coalition list, automatically decided to turn back and suspend his activities to go to the bedside of the grieving family.
For the former Prime Minister, Senegal has just lost a distinguished civil servant and him a very close younger brother. “I have just learned of the death of my younger brother. We had personal connections. I knew him at least 25 years ago. He was an agent and then division head. It was after that that he successively became head of the economic and financial cooperation department, budget director and finance minister.

When it comes to cooperation, I don't know anyone more competent than him. He did a lot for his country. In the design of the Emerging Senegal Plan, we were together at all stages, in the mobilization of resources as well as in management. Our families were also linked: Senegal lost a great man, an emeritus civil servant. I have decided to suspend, for today and possibly tomorrow, my electoral campaign in order to go to his family. Yesterday, I paid tribute to him at the Nioro stage. May God welcome him to his paradise.”