Strike the buyers, 20,000 more students expected, decline in internal revenue / The University of Dakar is she sitting on a powder keg?

The University of Dakar is sitting on a powder keg. The report is from the President of the staff of the Center for University Works Ndob Seck. And for good reason, the buyers of restaurants asphyxiated by the debts and on the edge of the abyss, threaten to close door shortly. On the other hand, the group of friendly students is putting pressure on the Direction du Coud for the opening without delay of all campus restaurants. A situation that risks being explosive if the Government does not find a solution. And according to Dr. Ndob Seck, CEO of the COUD, the problem of university restaurants is due to a budget deficit, since fixed costs are higher than available resources. The internal revenue does not allow to cover the breach, he said with a decline noted, is largely due to the measure of President Sall to lower food vouchers and also increase the amount of scholarships .

This situation raises the question of the need to evaluate the privatization of these restaurants, which has lasted 24 years.

On another level, with 4,000 new beds, an additional 20,000 students are expected at the campus, while the accompanying measures are not at the moment at the rendezvous. A true social bomb to be defused as quickly as possible said the President of the executives, especially as we move towards an election year …