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00:17 In Senegal, the purchase of a Airbus A320neo-9, which should be received on July 16, is not
00:24 unnoticed.
00:25 The opposition and civil society are asking for accounts, the government is trying to
00:30 explain itself.
00:31 While waiting for the state's answers, which may never come, the Imam Hetti shows you
00:36 with images what the new command plane of the President of the Republic of Senegal
00:40 will look like .
00:41 In Senegal, as part of a series of measures aimed at reducing public spending, President
00:46 Maki Salla sold, upon his arrival in power in 2012, the former presidential plane,
00:52 the Pointe de Sangomar, on which Leopold Sédar Senghor was already flying.
00:56 He was then using the Airbus A319, which his predecessor Abdoulaye Ouad bought from France
01:02 in 2010.
01:03 But after two decades of operation and while it has been buried for several months, the
01:08 A319 should definitely belong to the history of our country, of which he was a witness
01:12 to, full page.
01:13 Indeed, the judge is very stubborn and requires frequent and honorable technical visits, and
01:19 therefore long periods of immobilization and airplane rental expenses to
01:23 ensure presidential missions, the presidency decided in June 2019 to sign a purchase contract
01:29 signed with Airbus for the acquisition of a new presidential command plane
01:33 A320neo-9.
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