[Billet d’humour] Le pays serre la ceinture, le pouvoir garde ses gyrophares
In recent days, Senegal has given the impression of operating at two different speeds. On some roads, starving students are blocking traffic, having gone without food since the closure of university restaurants. On others, official motorcades stretch as far as the eye can see, tinted windows, sirens blaring, fueled by copious amounts of gasoline, transporting the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic on their tour, each carrying out their... republican mission.
Since the arrival of the "anti-establishment" movement in power, the national effort has clearly found its first volunteers. When it comes to taxing, cutting, streamlining, or "empowering" people, the administration doesn't hesitate. Student grants are being slashed, the average Senegalese citizen is learning to breathe with their stomach pulled in, while new taxes remind them that recovery is expensive—especially when you didn't choose the path.
But as soon as the reform needs to move up a level, the pace slows. Tackling slush funds? Meeting. Reviewing CEO salaries and benefits? Study. Eliminating certain unnecessary agencies? Commission. Reducing motorcades and luxury cars? Proposal to be considered when pigs fly.
We are told that the country's finances are strained. A very selective strain, it seems, since it doesn't affect flashing lights, full tanks of gas, or the kilometers traveled in convoys. The country is suffering, but not to the point of traveling light.
What about tickets to Mecca? They're being handed out left and right.
Reform, yes. But start at the top. No one is asking leaders to cycle to work or share thiéb with students. They're simply being asked to relinquish some privileges, reduce their spending, and show that sacrifice isn't a sport reserved for a select few.
Debt, however, arrives unannounced, heavy and silent, contracted without consulting the people who are now footing the bill. To cut oneself off from ordinary Senegalese is to slide slowly but surely towards the exit.
You can't rebuild a country with sirens. You rebuild it by marching at the same pace as those who are hungry.
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