Thiès, Feb 12 (APS) – The prefect of the department of Thiès, Moussa Diagne installed, on Saturday, Siré Dia, former director general of La Poste, in his new role as president of the Departmental Council of Thiès, noted the APS.
The installation ceremony initially scheduled for 10 a.m., started around 1 p.m., due to prior adjustments between the new president of the Departmental Council and his collaborators.
Ninety-two of the hundred departmental advisers who make up the institution were present during this first working session of the new team.
The councilors will have to elect the four vice-presidents and three secretaries who will constitute the office of the departmental council.
In a copy of his speech which he did not deliver, to ”make up for lost time”, the new chairman of the council announced that he wanted to ”work to make Thiès an ”emerging department, focusing on the human development by improving the technical platform of health structures” and the development of local health services.
In terms of education, he mentioned the construction of high schools and colleges and the improvement of study and learning conditions for students.
In the end, according to the text, it will be a question of ”playing the role of catalysts in the development of industry, agriculture, livestock and fishing”, to make Thiès a ” emerging department.
The new president of the county council intends to adopt a “concerted and inclusive management”.
Mr. Dia expressed his desire to establish a “frank and fruitful collaboration with the various municipalities of the department and the whole of the department and all the advisers in order to constitute a strong unit to carry out the concrete projects useful and essential to the development of the department and the development of the populations”.
“I extend my hand to you to work for the exclusive benefit of the populations of Thiès”, continues the text, announcing a treatment of all the members of the departmental council, “without consideration of political affiliation”.
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