Scandale foncier à Dakar-Plateau : Terrains à milliards, faux documents et soupçons de prête-noms d'un ancien ministre !
Land sold for billions on the Corniche, backdated administrative notices, state-owned plots allocated to private interests, and suspicions of straw men benefiting the entourage of the late former Finance Minister Mamadou Moustapha Bâ: the appearance of Eva Abess Niang, former head of the Dakar-Plateau Land Registry office, before the parliamentary inquiry committee has exposed serious irregularities. From the "Magic Basket" affair to the Neddo and Takhaw Nguène real estate companies, this is the story of a shocking audit that is shaking the upper echelons of the land administration.
Explosive revelations are piling up before the parliamentary inquiry committee. And some of the cases examined by the members of parliament reveal serious dysfunctions at the highest levels of the land administration. In Dakar-Plateau and in several highly strategic areas of the capital, land belonging to the state's private domain has been subject to allocation and final transfer procedures under conditions that are causing serious concern among the commissioners.
During her hearings with parliamentarians, Eva Abess Niang was confronted with numerous questionable transactions. As the hearings progressed, the deputies noted blatant chronological inconsistencies, significant contradictions between official documents, and serious questions about the identity of the actual beneficiaries.
The first case to attract the attention of the commission was the so-called "Magic Basket" case, concerning a plot of 2,339 m² located on the Corniche road, in the Mermoz sector, near the Cap Manuel prison.
In this case, the chronology of administrative actions raises questions. The application for regularization through a lease was submitted on December 22, 2023, by the company manager. Just four days later, on December 26, the Commission for the Control of State Property Transactions (CCOD) issued a favorable opinion. However, the Land Registry's technical report was only prepared and submitted on December 27.
How could the CCOD (Commission for the Control of Land Development) have given its approval without having this prior technical document? This is one of the major irregularities raised by the members of parliament, directly calling into question the regularity of the procedure. The financial structure of the beneficiary company also perplexed the assembly. Created in 2023, this sole proprietorship stated a share capital of one million CFA francs in its notarized articles of association and its NINEA (National Identification Number for Economic Agents). However, in the correspondence addressed to the Land Registry, the claimed capital reached ten million CFA francs. Adding to this significant discrepancy is a clear undervaluation: while the applicable land valuation scale set an estimate of 116 million CFA francs, the actual market value of the plot exceeds 7.5 billion CFA francs. The land was then definitively transferred by decree on March 18, 2024.
Another case that was scrutinized was that of SCI Galoya, concerning land title 67/DK. The commissioners discovered two contradictory dates on the documents relating to the CCOD's opinion: March 8 and August 9, 2023.
When questioned about this overlap, Eva Abess Niang maintained that an initial meeting held in March had failed to validate the file, as the cadastral plan had been rejected by the Director of the Land Registry. A second meeting was therefore convened in August. However, during the final drafting of the lease agreement, the first date apparently remained on the official document by mistake. This explanation leaves open the question of the reliability of administrative acts and the traceability of the CCOD's decisions.
But it was the case of the Neddo and Takhaw Nguène real estate companies that reignited suspicions of the use of front men. Members of Parliament sought to identify the true owners of the plots allocated to these entities. According to documents presented during the hearing, Paul François Diokh, designated as manager in the articles of association, formally denied, through his legal counsel, having signed the allocation requests or solicited any land whatsoever. The investigations also revealed his direct professional ties to the late Mamadou Moustapha Bâ, former Minister of Finance and Budget, for whom he worked. The commissioners suspect the use of this shell company to conceal the identity of the true beneficiary. On this point, the former land registrar replied that her department was limited to formal and factual verifications of identity documents and notarized articles of association, and had no investigative powers to uncover the actual beneficiaries.
The Madeleine SA case, meanwhile, exposed glaring gaps in coordination between state services. Plots of land located within the perimeter of the former Palace of Justice were subdivided and allocated to private entities, even though some of these areas were already under the management of the State's Building Heritage Management Company (SOGEPA).
Parliamentarians demanded to know how land containing public buildings or facilities could have been sold to private owners without consideration of their actual use.
The commission of inquiry now intends to establish all responsibilities within the chain of command, from the Land Registry to the State Property Office, including the CCOD (Central Commission for the Development of State Lands). The methods used to convert leases into outright transfers, the fire sale of state-owned plots, and the identification of the true beneficiaries are central to the investigation. At the conclusion of its work, the commission may recommend the outright annulment of the illegal acts, a thorough reform of the CCOD, and strict controls on state land transfers. A fundamental question encapsulates this scandal: how could invaluable assets of the national land heritage have been distributed under such opaque administrative conditions? This is the crux of the inquiry led by the commission's chairman, Momar Talla Ndao.
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jaljoob2026(arobase)gmail.com
Cette parcelle ne trouve certainement pas à Dakar.
Notre pauvre pays mériterait une bonne gouvernance dans la gestion du bien commun.
Aux sénégalais de prendre leurs responsabilités.
Cette situation doit interpeler tout le monde.
Moi ma plus grande désillusion c est le silence du président de la république et du chef du parquet.
NB: Pour la famille de Mamadou Moustapha Bâ, le meilleur service à rendre à sa famille, c'est d'éclaircir les circonstances de sa disparition. Mais là aussi, ce ne sera sûrement pas avec Diomaye au Palais.
Diomaye n'a plus aucun intérêt à ce que les crimes passés et présents soient traités par la justice, parce qu'il a besoin des criminels pour garder le pouvoir.
il y a beaucoup de magouilles, injustice, laissez aller, je m'en foutise.. Deuk bi daal lifi amm beuri, fess na beut baye tourou
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