2023-05-30 18:14:57
On May 29, the President of the Transition dismissed Sayon Bérété, Deputy Director of Geology for “gross negligence”. Dame Bérété would have paid for the images of an administrative vehicle, filled with wood, which went around social networks.
At first, the case seemed ordinary, as the use of government vehicles (VA) for private purposes is customary in Guinea. But there, the denunciations were such that Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya saw himself obliged to react. He landed Ms. Sayon Bérété for, he says, gross negligence. The gross fault is the fact for the now former deputy director of Geology, a department under the Ministry of Mines, to have used her service vehicle to transport wood and other construction materials. Internet users derided this image. Dame Bérété finally fell.
Amara Camara promises to crack down
The same day, the Minister Secretary General to the Presidency issued a press release to castigate the use of State rolling stock for personal purposes. General Amara Camara recalls that administrative vehicles, the exclusive property of the State, should not be used for the purposes of “ceremonies, public transport, commerce, works, construction sites or any other unhealthy use”. It reserves the right to identify the perpetrators of these abuses, to immobilize the vehicles in question in order to take “administrative sanctions or to initiate proceedings for willful deterioration of equipment belonging to the State”.
This dismissal and this exit of General Amara Camara may not be enough to discourage other candidates from such practices so much that the Guinean official no longer makes the difference between the property of the State and his own.
Yacine Diallo
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