Badara Gadiaga accuses Ousmane Sonko of mismanaging 1.77 billion FCFA in political funds

Appearing on the Jakaarlo program, Gadiaga alleged that the former Prime Minister nearly depleted an allocation of 1.77 billion FCFA during his tenure. According to Gadiaga's calculations, Ousmane Sonko left less than 70 million FCFA for his successor, Al Aminou Lo, after departing the Prime Minister's Office on May 22, 2026. Gadiaga estimates the average daily consumption rate of these funds at approximately 12 million FCFA.

The columnist drew a parallel with the situation of students, citing the case of Abdoulaye Ba, who reportedly requested payment of his 40,000 FCFA scholarship before his death. For Badara Gadiaga, this disparity between the funds utilized at the highest levels of government and the difficulties faced by some students contradicts the new authorities' discourse on economic and social recovery, which he termed "vampirism." These accusations, made on the Jakaarlo set, are those of the columnist and would need to be verified against official data on the use of political funds from the Prime Minister's Office.