Two former deputies and 3 civil servants have been under arrest since last week. Among them: the treasurer, a financial controller and the director of public procurement of the former National Assembly under the regime of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. These arrests follow the publication of an audit report, on March 9, 2023, on the management of Parliament between 2018 and 2021. As for Alassane Bala Sakandé, president of the National Assembly until January 2022, a summons was transmitted to him, but he did not appear before the prosecutor.
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Alassane Bala Sakandé was summoned on Wednesday to be heard by the High Authority for State Control and the Fight against Corruption. But he did not respond to the summons. According to his lawyers, the former president of the National Assembly is absent from Burkina Faso for “ medical reasons “. And he will report to the prosecutor as soon as “ possible », denying that he would have taken “ their heels “.
This summons of the former President of the National Assembly follows the revelation “ irregularities » in the management of the National Assembly between 2018 and 2021. Among these irregularities are, among other things, overbilling, fictitious missions, irregular fuel outflows, illegal public procurement, unjustified payments and illegal treatment abroad. . All for a total of more than 13 billion CFA francs.
At the time of the publication of the audit report, Alassane Bala Sakandé’s lawyers denounced “ settling accounts » against their client.