“People made the decision knowing that it was not in Senegal’s best interest…”

Minister Birame Soulèye Diop announced the key decision after concluding a visit to the Ngoundiane and Darou Khoudoss mines. “It happens that we see in the companies, in the superstructures, I’m talking about the design agents, we find little or no Senegalese skills, while the resources we develop … are the property of the people … everything means. It must be deployed so that people have access to resources, use them better, but also feel the impact in terms of skills … Our government will continue to work with the companies we visit to require compliance with the law, because in general we see that companies are making a lot of efforts, but absolute compliance with the law is not there yet … “, he insisted.

Before driving home. “We are in transparent governance, Senegal will become a glass wall, we can see from the outside everything that happens inside… We have to re-examine everything, because not everything is done in the strict interest of Senegal… Sometimes people make decisions knowing that it is not in the interest of the Senegalese state… This re-reading allows the Senegalese state to find itself at the heart of things, redistributing in a completely transparent, completely objective way…”