In the wake of the hijacking scandal of 4 billion Guinean francs (about 370,000 euros) that shook the general management of the Conakry-Gbessia Airport Management Company (SOGEAC), at the end of March, and which set out Oulaba Kabassan Keïta cause, the latter still does not seem worried.
On the other hand, the chairman of the board of directors who had commissioned the audit, Boubacar Sow, was dismissed last April for “gross negligence” when the SOGEAC Board of Directors was held in Paris.
Boubacar Sow’s explanations of the reasons for his dismissal leave one puzzled: “SOEGAC is a mixed enterprise, 49% of whose shares are held by Agence Française de Développement, Paris airport and the Chamber of Commerce of France. Bordeaux. They asked that the agenda of the Board of Directors that we should hold, include a point relating to the audit of certain expenses for the years from January 1, 2016 to October 31, 2017 (the DG management interval incriminated by independent audits). I told them I agreed, “says Sow, adding that the President of the Republic and his Minister of Transport did not want to hear about it, let alone the AC in Paris.
“They (the President and his Minister of Transport) said that the French are very astute and that if we accepted this, they will dismiss the other (Kabassan Oulaba Keita, CEO of SOGEAC, editor’s note). Because, the president had asked to defer to that. I said yes, but it was to build us more. But for me, it’s a question of equality. I can not deny someone who owns 49% of the shares. If they ask for a point on the agenda, I can not refuse them, “suggested Sow, quoted by the site Guineematin.com.
His obstinacy in shedding light on the management of DG Kabassan Oulaba Kéita, accused of embezzlement even if it goes against the directives of his hierarchy at the highest level, will eventually get the better of him.
The question that seems to intrigue more than one observer is why the DG of SOGEAC is still in office and seems apparently “untouchable” while independent audits incriminating him are on the table of the Minister of Transport and that this information have obviously been reported to the President of the Republic?
If the former PCA of SOGEAC believes that the president Conde has better to do than to take care of a mixed company because according to him “the thief is known” and that he had to take the arrangements to put it out of the state of harm, the president does not hear it that way. As proof, this week end, Alpha Condé has taken another decree to replace the former ex-chairman of the Board of SOGEAC by Cheick Oumar Diarra, civil administrator at the head of the Board of Directors …
