• Between December 2020 and January 2022
• Stop normal process by the January coup
• What’s going to happen January 3, 2023?
IIt is 9 a.m. on December 29, 2022, at the Pacific Hotel in Ouagadougou, the meeting room, with this December duck cold, is even more icy. We found there regarding thirty deputies of the 8e legislature which also took vehicle loans et reassembled once morest the High Authority for State Control and the Fight once morest Corruption (ASCE-LC). They had trouble containing this anger, so betrayed by their actions and gestures. The name “class leader”, which designates Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, was heard in a group of deputies to hammer that they find themselves explaining themselves because of his coup de force once morest the Constitution, January 24, 2022. Their anger, according to the spokespersons of the deputies, Alexandre Tapsoba, the deputy Achille Tapsoba and the deputy Me Mathieu Somé, this exit of the ASCE-LC which they describe as hazardous did not take place. ‘be ; because, they say, they have never refused to fulfill their duty vis-à-vis the National Assembly (AN) with whom they contracted the loans.
MPs are willing to pay, but…
On the contrary, with supporting evidence, the speakers reveal that they had taken out the loan for a 5-year term (2020-2025), unfortunately cut short by the coup d’etat of January 24, 2022. Despite everything, Alexandre Tapsoba emphasizes that from 28 December 2020 to 24 January 2022, all MEPs were up to date with their commitments. On this date, each borrowing deputy was able to repay the sum of 2,000,000 FCFA corresponding to 55.56% of the session allowances for the year 2021. And the advances were thus to be paid off at the end of 2025, with the last session.
Better, they challenged the ASCE-LC that the decree provides in its article 5 that in the event of premature termination of the mandate of deputy, the deputy who will not have fully reimbursed his advance will have to conclude a new repayment schedule with the AN. Another argument advanced: with the events of January 2022 and the dissolution of the AN, the Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT) asked the deputies of the 8e legislature to propose new payment schedules. According to him, each deputy performed according to his current income. This is pending a meeting with the ALT and the deputies of the 8e legislature that the ASCE-LC press release falls on them like a hammer blow. “We are not refusing to reimburse, but with an 8-day deadline, recognize that it is difficult, otherwise we want to follow the procedures, but that the ASCE-LC please take into account the current situation of the deputies”, notes he.
Loans of 13 million repayable on session allowances
Moreover, he explains that from the 7e legislature, the office of the National Assembly has decided that it is now up to the deputies concerned to take advances on their sessional allowances, in order to acquire their vehicle. Thus, in accordance with this decision of the office, the president of the AN issued an order n ° 2021-013 / AN / PRES authorizing the deputies to take an advance on their session allowances up to a maximum ceiling of 13,500 .000 FCFA. Which credit must be deducted from ordinary sessions of 90 days, twice a year, at an indemnity rate of 30,000 FCFA per day.
For Alexandre Tapsoba, the reimbursement was spread over the duration of the mandate and consisted of a regular levy of 55.56% on the allowances paid. As a reminder, the deputies of the 8e legislature (2020-2025) are not the only ones, there are also in the rearview mirror, the deputies of the 7e legislature (2015-2020), ordered to pay no later than January 3, 2023. Discussions are underway with the ASCE-LC to break this impasse. Speakers have no idea which MPs are affected by the ASCE-LC decision. Also, the loans are individual and not collective, affirm the speakers. o
Ambéternifa Crépin SOMDA
framed
No penny of the people should to be the property of an individual
SOn vehicle loans to deputies, the ASCE-LC seems to be diligent in enabling the people of Burkina Faso to recover all of their money. Which money will be of use to the Burkinabè State, in mobilizing the war effort once morest the terrorists who are sowing desolation in the country.
