Mauritania: Opposition party wants ex-president Abdel Aziz administration probed
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Opposition Rassemblement des Forces Democratiques (RFD) wants a general audit of Mauritania's economic situation under a decade of President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, PANA reported, quoting an opposition press statement sent on Monday.
Following a presidential election organized on June22, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani emerged president, replacing Abdel Aziz on August 1, 2019.
The RFD would like "to objectively have the inventory of all state economic services (treasury, budget, Central Bank of Mauritania (BCM), mines, fisheries, real estate, markets , schools, stadiums) and public companies in the image of the National Industrial and Mining Company (SNIM), the ports of Nouakchott and Nouadhibou, the Mauritanian Company of Hydrocarbons and Mining Heritage (SMHPM), all audited".
The exercise demanded by the RFD must aim "to determine without bias, the conditions for the award and conclusion of major public contracts and agreements between the State and domestic and foreign private companies during the last decade (airports and ports, roads, markets of Nouakchott)".
According to the statement, "it is also necessary to determine the conditions under which the National Company of Import / Export (SONIMEX), the National Company for the Road Maintenance (ENER), the National Agency of Execution of Works of Public Interest (AMEXRTIPE and the Agency for Promotion of Universal Access to Services) were liquidated.
The RFD is the party of Ahmed Ould Daddah, who has unsuccessfully run for the presidency several times.
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