Dakar, March 2 (APS) – The entry into force of the measure to lower rent prices and other subjects are on the front page of the daily newspapers received Tuesday at the Senegalese Press Agency (APS).
Liberation explains ”what will change” in the rental sector and points out that the fall in prices has been effective since March 1st. The Minister of Trade, Consumer Affairs and SMEs intends to conduct a vast awareness and control campaign to enforce the measure.
According to Vox Populi, the decreases are around 15% between 0 and 300,000 CFA francs, 10% between 300,000 and 500,000 CFA francs and 5% beyond 500,000 CFA francs.
The newspaper specifies that “only + premises for residential use + are concerned, those for workshops, shops, offices are excluded from the scope of the measure”.
According to L’Info, ”the tenants are between fears and glimmers of hope”.
”Already fearing the syndrome of the 2014 law, some tenants are already alerting the state authorities against recalcitrant landlords who always find ways of circumventing the measure, with the key, evictions for reasons of rehabilitation and other tricks to turn the beneficiaries of the law and then raise the prices,” writes the newspaper.
L’Observateur points out that the draft decree establishing and setting the rules for the organization and operation of the National Commission for the regulation of rent for residential leases was adopted on Wednesday by the Council of Ministers.
In L’Obs, the new president of the National Commission for the Regulation of Rents for Residential Leases (Conarel) at the Ministry of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and SMEs, Momar Ndao, declares that “the measure is effective, therefore donors only have to apply the texts”.
”We will start immediately. Work doesn’t wait. We will give all the numbers to contact and all the different elements that allow you to enter the commission. Those who do not respect the texts will be subject to the law of 1981 on the illicit increase in rents and they risk a prison sentence and a fine,” said Momar Ndao.
The daily newspaper Le Soleil highlights ”the great leap forward of Sédhiou” in the health sector. According to the newspaper, the construction of the Amadou Tidiane Ba Hospital, inaugurated on Wednesday by the Head of State on tour in Sédhiou, ”considerably strengthened the health map of the region to the delight of users”.
The publication also points out that the Council of Ministers has validated the three-year program of FCfa 400 billion devoted to the development of the region.
Sud Quotidien is interested in the functioning of the National Assembly and notes that ”more than 5 months after its installation (…), the 14th legislature seems to reduce its functioning to the processing of files received from the executive and other participations in workshops”.
“Indeed, notwithstanding the multiple cases (Covid-19 report, sale [des terres] of Le Dantec hospital, affair of the contract of 45 billion armaments…) which feed the public debate and on which its implication would have made it possible to enlighten the lantern of the Senegalese, the present National Assembly is voiceless”, deplores Sud.
The daily Bës Bi remembers the riots of March 2021” about which it speaks of ”2 years of impunity”.
”This Friday, Senegal will commemorate year 2 of the March riots. A dozen deaths without culprits so far despite the government’s announcement in April 2021 to set up an independent commission”, according to the newspaper.
”It’s a dark spot in the political history of Senegal, a chaos that has shaken the institutions and the President of the Republic still can’t believe it (…). This March 3, 2021, when the opponent Ousmane Sonko was arrested for + public order disturbances and participation in a prohibited demonstration +, the country fell into unprecedented violence, ”recalls the daily.
Mr. Sonko, the leader of Pastef, accompanied by hundreds of his supporters, had been arrested when he had to respond to a summons from the Dean of the investigating judges, Samba Sall, for ”rape followed by death threats+ following a the complaint of Adji Sarr, a masseuse from the Sweet Beauté salon.