“The villa affair occupied a central place during the transfer of powers between President Moustapha Niasse and his successor Amadou Mame Diop. The handover of the keys to the villa, formalizing the transaction, took place on August 20, 2024.”
This clarification was given by the spokesperson for the Alliance of Forces of Progress (AFP), Alioune Badara Diouck, to clarify the controversy over the sale of the official villa of the President of the National Assembly.
“President Moustapha Niasse has firmly rejected any project aimed at alienating state property under more than doubtful conditions and procedures,” he notably underlined in a press release.
The former technical advisor to the President of the National Assembly continues: “This affair dates back to 2017, when the Minister of the Budget and the Director of State Built Heritage initiated a procedure without informing the President of the National Assembly. [Moustapha Niasse]. On June 3, 2021, the Director of State Built Heritage sent a letter to Moustapha Niasse asking him to give him the keys to the villa. The letter remained unanswered. Subsequently, President Niasse reported the situation to President Macky Sall. »
AFP intervenes after the declarations of the former president of the Benno Bokk Yakaar parliamentary group, Abdou Mbow, who implicated Moustapha Niasse in this transaction.
“The honorable deputy Abdou Mbow gave a distorted version of the villa affair, by modifying the roles and the chronology of the facts,” reacted the spokesperson for the progressive party.
The Takku-Wallu MP, invited to the RFM Grand Jury on Sunday, explained: “When Moustapha Niasse took over as President of the National Assembly, he asked his services to show him the residence occupied by his predecessor, Mamadou Seck . He discovered that the State, as part of the construction of a high school in Yoff, had transferred this property to an individual owner of the land intended for the construction of the high school. Moustapha Niasse then contacted President Macky Sall, who opposed it, believing that this villa was part of the state heritage. »
