I'm wondering whether Touba organized a tax base. It will be difficult for the Holy City of the Mourides to have infrastructure and services such as garbage collection without means to identify and administer a revenue system.
In 2005, the Arizon company STC created a land management and tax support system, SIGGIL, for Touba. The system created the ability (with GIS) to create and distribute land ownership titles to over 100,000 citizens. SIGGIL enabled the local government to levy the first taxation in Touba. According to the company website (www.stchome.com):
"Scientific Technologies Corporation (STC), an Arizona corporation established in 1988, provides domain expertise and information technology solutions to address complex real world problems in community, regional, state/provincial, and national public health programs... "
According to internet reports the software was delivered. I'll follow up to see if it was implemented... Senegal sources report that the Khalif has succeeded in generating tax revenue. (See previous posts about some of those funds disappearing in Dakar)...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
No wonder the Chinese aren't getting paid
The Khalif was in Dakar recently wondering where all the money from Touba disappeared to. Chinese contractors aren't going to get paid if revenues disappear after being sent to Dakar and the President Wade's central government. So now there is this revelation, from today on Independent Online:
"Dakar - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has sacked Budget Minister Ibrahima Sarr for allowing government departments to overspend by 109-billion CFA francs ($252-million), a Finance Ministry official said late on Friday.
Wade sacked a quarter of his ministers last year in a bid to cut costs in the face of a ballooning food import bill, but has been criticised by opponents for funding prestige projects such as a planned 50-metre bronze "African Renaissance" statue.
The octogenarian president signed a decree sacking Sarr late on Thursday.
The decree gave no reason for Sarr's sacking, which came just hours after Wade met resident International Monetary Fund representative Alex Segura. Details of their discussions were not made public."
"Dakar - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has sacked Budget Minister Ibrahima Sarr for allowing government departments to overspend by 109-billion CFA francs ($252-million), a Finance Ministry official said late on Friday.
Wade sacked a quarter of his ministers last year in a bid to cut costs in the face of a ballooning food import bill, but has been criticised by opponents for funding prestige projects such as a planned 50-metre bronze "African Renaissance" statue.
The octogenarian president signed a decree sacking Sarr late on Thursday.
The decree gave no reason for Sarr's sacking, which came just hours after Wade met resident International Monetary Fund representative Alex Segura. Details of their discussions were not made public."
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