The Segura Affair: "reverse Teranga"?

The Senegalese government in statements today seemed to acknowledge giving a pile of cash to outgoing IMF country representative Alex Segura. But it was not a bribe, they say. According to the prime minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye, the cash was simply a (very sizable) going away gift to Segura, in the hospitable tradition of the Senegalese people. He notes that Segura never did any favors for the Senegal government while he was stationed at Dakar, and he was on his way out, unable to do any future favors, so it couldn't be a bribe.