A power outage of a few minutes was invited in the Flamboyant Room of the King Fahd Palace on the occasion of the summit of heads of state and government of the International Development Association (Ida 2020). A cut occurred during the speech of the Director of Operations of the World Bank Axel Van Trotsenburg and plunged the room in the dark and in a cathedral silence.
A bad publicity for our country and President Macky Sall. Especially since he was surrounded by several of his counterparts in the sub-region. These include President Denis Sassou Ngesso of Congo, President Amadu Boiri of Nigeria, President Emballo of Guinea Bissau, the President of Tanzania, the vice-presidents of Côte d’Ivoire and Gambia.
Visibly very embarrassed by this cut, President Sall was quick to protest against this incident. « This cut is a sign of underperformance that is not acceptable in relation to our desire for emergence. It is because somewhere, there is someone who has not done his job, » charges the head of state before continuing: « In Africa, we do not have the culture of punishment. I find that this incident must be sanctioned, » says the President of the Republic who reveals that for such an important meeting, the Director of the hotel should not accept such a situation. To move forward, he said, we must sanction when it does not work.
According to him, this meeting was to be held in Diamniadio which has all the amenities, unfortunately with the Tabaski, there are many movements to the interior of the country, that is why we wanted to keep our guests in Dakar.
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