To improve the functioning of justice, Senegal is launching an online platform. Citizens are invited to leave any complaints or comments on the malfunctions observed. A toll-free number has also been created.
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With our correspondent in Dakar, Léa-Lisa Westerhoff
“Jubbanti” (“Correct”, in Wolof), is the name of this new website which allows each citizen to give their opinion on justice, according to the site. On the home page, an online form allows you to leave your comment, in French or Wolof, and anonymously.
It is a way of putting the litigant back at the center, as explained by the spokesperson for the presidency, Ousseynou Ly. “ This litigant, we must give him the means to send his remarks on the functioning of justice, so we had to have a tool which gives the citizen the possibility of making contributions “, he explains.
Initiated by the presidency, this platform is intended to be a first step before a major national conference on the crisis in the justice sector next Tuesday. For Alassane Ndiaye, magistrate and technical advisor at the Ministry of Justice, it is urgent to act in favor of the sector because justice is the victim of a “ loss of trustworthy “. “ The use of certain mechanisms such as custodial measures, overcrowding in prisons and delays in the processing of certain cases… It is necessary to improve all of this “, he said.
And for those who fear the digital divide or that those who do not have access to the internet will be excluded from the process, a toll-free number, 1222, has been opened. The presidency also promises to maintain this space for complaints beyond next week’s conference and to respond to the grievances of the Senegalese.