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| Africa Subsaharan |
| New Senegalese president cuts civil servants pay |
| 2012-05-16 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] The government of Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... has announced that salaries of civil servants will no longer exceed five million francs, approximately two thousand five hundred dollars (KSh207,500). The Le Quotidien newspaper on has reported that the decision was in keeping with President Macky Sall's ongoing drive to eradicate corruption. During his campaign, President Sall had also promised to attain economic prosperity for all and bridge the gap between the rich and poor. Before the decision was made, President Sall had said he felt "scandalised" on realising that salaries of some junior civil servants were twice as higher as their ministers. Le Quotiden newspaper reported for instance that the monthly salary of the outgoing director of the agency for the regulation of post and telecommunications was 14 million francs, approximately $70,000 (Ksh5.8m). The source also published the monthly salaries of the outgoing directors of the sea port and that of the rural electrification as 11 and nine million francs or $50,000 and $45,000 respectively. The paper drew a ridiculous analogy between the salary of the outgoing director of the sea port at11 million francs and his former boss, the minister of environment and maritime affairs who earned about 3.5 million francs (about $7,000 a month. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Can we import this guy to redo the bureaucracy here for a few years? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-05-16 08:43 |