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Saly-Portudal (Mbour), July 8 (APS) – President Macky Sall's chief of staff, Oumar Youm, reacted on Sunday to the decision of the ECOWAS Court of Justice on the case of the mayor of Dakar , Khalifa Sall, recalling that it is the Senegalese courts that are empowered to deliver justice in the name of the people.
"The Senegalese magistrates were not sworn in before the Court of Justice of ECOWAS but before the Senegalese people," said Youm, in particular, in Saly-Portudal (Mbour, West). 19659002]
Speaking on the sidelines of a brainstorming workshop on the implementation of a project of intercommunality between the municipalities of Sandiara, Sessène and Thiadiaye, a municipality of which he is the mayor, Oumar Youm declares that the authorities are waiting for First, the decision of the national courts.
"ECOWAS, which is not the Court of Cassation of Senegal, has accustomed us to highly criticized decisions with enough arguments. In Senegal, justice is rendered by sovereign Senegalese courts in the name of the Senegalese people, and we await the decision that will be made by the Senegalese courts, "he said.
He recalled that experts much more qualified than him have already pronounced on the scope of the decision of ECOWAS, and that it will be for the courts that are already seized of this case to decide on this issue. effect.
'' It is not up to us authorities, actors of governance to pronounce us. It is not up to us to comment on court decisions, even if they are decisions that come from ECOWAS, "insisted Mr. Oumar Youm.
"The Court is sufficiently empowered, has sufficient resources, the Senegalese courts and judges are sufficiently intelligent and well-trained to answer the questions put to them in the context of the trials", he claimed.
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