The Friday columns of Peps Guèye. It will be every weekend. Observation, reflection, analysis, opinion, deciphering social, economic and especially political facts, this is what our analyst Peps Guèye, will try to do in this way. A lucid, direct gaze that sometimes pours into the derision of a search for truth to the questions posed, will be delivered to you through this production.

Thank God It’s Friday (T.G.I.F.): The curse of a nation: Always the doctor after death. This is the nth time that the President of the Republic says that changes are needed in the Senegal system. Now it is the system of financing European projects against illegal immigration that he wants to clarify by asking for a report. Do not tell me that he was unaware of the astronomical amounts wasted on spurious projects and the unbearable number of deaths of individuals who could have benefited from these sums. Note that the president carefully avoids the word audit in his request. This is the nth time he has received citizens in distress due to informal and tortuous practices in his administration. It is a nth confession of failure and a confirmation of his inability to lead the Senegal boat to port. 

At each Council of Ministers, we feel like we are at the beginning of a mandate. Normally the Council of Ministers must consult the progress of the government roadmap and study the evolution and results of the proposed society defined at the beginning of the legislature. But each time, in an energy of despair, we see incantations of a president on the actions to be carried out in this or that sector and measures to be taken following certain components of the population such as the recurrent cases of house destruction and the tragedies that follow. Whole sections of our society, of our economy, are in a state of advanced decay. These are proven findings. It is not a spokesman who has sold his soul to the devil who will give us lessons of reflection.We are witnessing yet another confirmation of true visual piloting.

The Senegalese are ready to change but may not have the credible and courageous leader who can lead them into a new challenge.When the people choose an individual to preside over their destiny, it is a major change, as when two people marry, divorce, have their first child or lose a loved one.Change is a permanent fact in the existence of an individual or organization such as an enterprise or a nation. In any change, there is a certain perception of risk (would I be up to my new position as President?), of Perte (Will I not lose the next elections?) and of Stress (How to manage states of tension in the country?). A credible and courageous leader will peacefully face this change and see it as an opportunity to positively transform society and the lives of citizens. Predators will see change as a threat to their privileges (from party leader, to serve and serve their biological and political families). While leaders will set society in motion and adopt value-creating strategies for citizens, predators, for their part, will opt for the status quo, put the country into a permanent electoral campaign and proceed by on-sight pilotage and sealing without convincing results. Senegalese are not ready to change, it is because the first of them is not ready to change. Mr President of the Republic, since you took your oath, you could have given a strong signal of change by putting yourself on leave from your party and show that you will govern for all Senegalese.

You could also have returned to the public purse the funds you claim to have enjoyed as privileges granted by your mentor (I point out these facts since your election). You had 65% of the population in 2012 (a comfortable presidential majority) to support you in courageous reforms to change mentalities (indiscipline, laziness, idleness, easy money, gratuitous wickedness, clumsy jealousy, mystical practices of mass destruction, larbinism, tapalé ak tiakhane) and eliminate informal practices in public and private organizations (corruption, concussion, influence peddling, illegal taking of interest) that plague our social body. You preferred not to saw the branch you are sitting on (this is your conception of power) So you see change as a threat to your personal and clan privileges and not as an opportunity to restore Senegal to its rightful place. You remain a prisoner of your political apparatus (APR) and the coalition that supports you (BBY), your family and friendly circles, religious, sectarian, masonic and financial political lobbies (the presence of some activists and business people in your team is very edifying). The comfortable presidential majority has now broken down and Senegal is still a banana republic where scandals are stifled as during the mandates of your predecessors.Benchmarks are lost, values are broken and the social bond is broken.

The education system is in tatters and a minister puts a whole country in a psychodrama for the whims of a single student who is supposed to be the best in Senegal (hallucinating). When one destroys houses, one avoids touching those that belong to relatives of the power (Scandalous) The Republic rolls under the seal of rancour, vengeance and the limitation of any “nuisance capacity” of the opponents. Muzzling everyone seems to be the credo of power in place,” says a friend on Facebook. How do you want to develop a country whose foundations are in ruins? The curse falls on this valiant people who do not deserve this situation.Every individual has some form of natural resistance to change, it is human.However, the responsibility of the leadership of a nation is large and important enough to ensure that this change is managed effectively and efficiently and lightly. It is fundamental to mourn an obsolete and inoperative system and to have the courage to thoroughly reform society to set it in motion. 

You can fool a people once, but not all the time. Let us continue the citizen struggle with Ousmane SONKO and the patriots who accompany him, to have, in 2024, leadership, credibility and courage to positively change our country. Let us continue this fight to bring about a new citizenship in a new Republic that is more united, more just, more united and where progress will be shared by all.Jummah Mubarak