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afrol.com, 22 July - The Senegalese Council of Ministers under its meeting yesterday, presided by President Abdoulaye Wade, decided to dissolve the City Communauté of Dakar. The reason given was that the Communauté had been financially paralyzed for years, depending on the state to finance its basic assignments. At the time of its creation, the City Communauté of Dakar had been given the missions to manage several services of communal interest. These included removal and the destruction of household garbage, the cleaning and the sweeping of streets, the maintenance of the urban streets and roads, the municipal sewerage system, street lighting, the management of the Abass Ndao Hospital. - But after more than ten years of existence, one has to realize that the Dakar City Communauté suffers from structural difficulties, which has led to the blocking, or even paralysis, of its activities, the Senegalese Council of Ministers stated. For several years, the state, by separate accounts of the Treasury, to a large extent has ensured the financing of these assignments. The total debt of the urban City Communauté of Dakar now amounts to 17 billion franc CFA (approximately 24 million US$). Further, government had added a credit of 540 million franc CFA (750.000 US$). The Council of Ministers assured that the services until now performed by the Communauté would be taken over and carried out by the state, and promised to "ensure a decent level of cleanliness of the town of Dakar and its quarters, as well as good health conditions and decent lighting." All movable property and real estate as well as the personnel of the City
Communauté were to be transferred to the state.
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