Senegal: Wade under pressure to resign

  1. Posted on Tuesday 17 November 2009 - 09:32
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    Kemo Cham, AfricaNews reporter in Dakar, Senegal
    Karim Wade, son of the Senegalese president, has been challenged by some parliamentarians to resign his post as minister.
    Karim Wade
    Muslim cleric and member of Senegalese parliament, Imam Mbaye Niang, last week called on Wade who is the country’s Minister of International Cooperation, Air Transport and Infrastructure to discharge his duties and go to court to shed light on controversies surrounding the management of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference, held in Senegal, March last year.

    Wade was appointed by his father, President Wade, to head the organization of the summit, which cost hundreds of billions of CFA francs. The youngster has since been under allegation of corruption and financial malpractices.

    AfricaNews reporter said his greatest critic in Senegal is the country’s most popular local journalist, Abdou Latif Coulibaly, who authored a widely acclaimed book on his alleged malpractices during the summit. The latest fracas aroused during voting session at the Parliament for budgetary allocations for Karim’s ministry.

    "The country needs to be built and that is what drove me not to vote for this budget," Niang told reporters outside parliament, after the session. He based his criticisms on the book - ‘Accounts and disappointments of the ANOCI’ - which he argued contains "serious charges".

    “Today, the opportunity was there, in the National Assembly. We are members of the people and I can not even give him 142.314 billion CFA francs while the 432 billion CFA francs he has managed in the context of ANOCI are not yet clarified,” Imam Mbaye Niang said.

    Karim Wade, who refused to talk on the issue, faces a lot of criticisms for his handling of a number of infrastructural developments under his ministry.

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