NOTRE SOUVERAINETÉ À L’ÉPREUVE DE LA DETTE (Par Maître Djiby Diallo)
He who remains silent commits a fault only when he was under an obligation to speak, and he who speaks also commits an offence when he was under an obligation to remain silent.
I prefer the ant, for its ingenuity, to the cicada which makes a lot of noise only to find itself very destitute at the end of summer.
Are we ants or cicadas?
What does the concept of hidden debts cover from a legal and political point of view?
Are we obliged to reveal to the outside world our credits or debts, our ingenuity, our state secrets?
Sovereignty is the freedom for a country to be able to hide its internal and strategic political, economic and economic choices from foreign states and international bodies.
Admitting the concept of hidden debts calls into question Senegal's supremacy and sovereignty in financing its development.
Senegal has the right to remain silent about its internal debt and should only be held accountable when it finds itself unable to honor its international commitments, excluding its strategic, sovereign and national commitments.
Public commitments are of two kinds: internal and external.
A State is sovereign in its internal commitments and has no obligation to account, either to a foreign State or even to any international organization.
It seems to me that the same applies to commitments to foreign private companies.
Don't public companies have the right to make commitments independently?
To submit all these debts to the censorship of the IMF is to agree to call into question our sovereignty in our quest for endogenous development.
Each organization has the possibility of setting up financial engineering to attract funding.
This engineering, which is the property of the State, must never be undermined by political action.
What is happening to us is serious.
We are now, hand and foot, handing over our souls to the IMF, which is telling us: "Yes, since you have admitted to having hidden your debt from us, that's good. You are honest. Now, present us with a new program in which you will prove that you can finance your budget with your internal resources, while waiting to see the 2024-2025 budget report."
It's a trap!
So the hunter who was tracking the wolf, and who had looked in vain at the sand while lying down to see the traces of the great lynx, suddenly found himself face to face with the lost game, because surprised.
We are thus surprised, we are lost... All our paths are taken and our retreat cut off in our race towards development.
What will happen?
Subsidies will be lifted, people will still be working hard...
This approach only suits the IMF, which now has us by the throat.
We must also ask ourselves how he will assess the debt of the new regime, as well as its consequences on the value of the State's signature, which continues to be degraded.
The break is not a questioning of our ingenuity, but a new and salutary approach, based on a specific and original vision of development, which consolidates our achievements and the rule of law, and which values our creative genius.
The desire to liquidate a political adversary should not have harmful consequences for our institutions, our public finances and our international credibility.
The questioning of these parameters, to the point that our State suffers the repercussions and the resulting discredit of our institutions, can be classified in the discharge of their authors, in the register of lack of experience...
We can repair this—in silence and patriotism—by admitting that internal political discourse should not produce so much damage if it were not followed by effects, and by putting an end to this internal controversy, the prolongation of which can only be fatal to us.
Businessmen who helped the state circumvent the subsidy problem should be released.
For example, Khadim Ba helped the state end power cuts and avoid rising electricity and fuel costs.
We do not have to account to international institutions for some of our choices which fall within our sovereignty.
Now, to speak like Charles Péguy: to weep and to moan is equally cowardly. Let us respond to where fate has called us, to die without uttering a cry...
Let us stop the noise. Let us work like the ant and like the children of the plowman, to whom their father bequeathed this maxim: work is a treasure.
Let’s take responsibility for our choices!
Master Djiby Diallo
Attorney at Law
President of the Action and Initiative Group for Localized Development
Commentaires (7)
Là, non seulement il a changé la base de calcul de notre dette mais il a montré au monde comment on gère nos finances.
on doit se soumettre quotidiennement à une remise en question, dire la vérité c'est libérer l'âme et l'esprit de tout remords, regret ou repentir . On est tous des éducateurs à ce titre on doit apprendre à nos enfants les vertus qui doivent guider notre existence sur terre .Les positions politiques ne doivent en aucun cas nous faire sortir de cette trajectoire vertueuse .
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