Marchés opaques à l’ONAS : Cheikh Dieng balance sur Cheikh Tidiane Dièye
Cheikh Dieng is relieved. The Dakar criminal court found him not guilty of defamation charges brought against him by Vicas and Delta, companies specializing in sanitation. In an interview published this Thursday in L'Observateur, the former director general of the National Sanitation Office of Senegal (ONAS) "relishes this victory in the contract." But he also took the opportunity to settle scores with the Minister of Water and Sanitation, Cheikh Tidiane Dièye, whom he accuses of having targeted and obtained his dismissal to protect the interests of the companies that were suing him. "There was unacceptable interference by the minister in the prerogatives of the ONAS director general," he declared.
The mayor of Djeddah, Thiaroye Kao, elaborated: “I presented to the judge the letters and emails that Minister Cheikh Tidiane Dièye sent directly to my department, bypassing me. The minister personally intervened to impose the re-awarding of contracts to Delta and Vicas through direct agreements. I even presented to the court the draft contracts he had prepared and demanded that I sign. Naturally, I categorically refused, out of respect for due process.”
Cheikh Dieng will not emerge unscathed from this power struggle: he will be dismissed. "Subsequently," the former mayor points out, "we witnessed a first in our country's administrative history: a minister of the Republic signing three official statements, under the seal of the State, to take up the cause of private companies against his own director general. It was a trial by proxy. They wanted to silence me at all costs."
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