Gambiaj.com – (Dakar, Senegal) – Senegalese Deputy Guy Marius Sagna of the parliamentary majority Pastef Les Patriotes has formally filed a resolution seeking the indictment of former President Macky Sall for high treason. The resolution, dated April 11, 2025, accuses Sall of large-scale financial misconduct and unconstitutional management of public funds during his presidency.

The motion, submitted to National Assembly President Malick Ndiaye, invokes Article 101 of Senegal’s Constitution, which allows for the indictment of a president for acts of high treason committed in the exercise of his functions.

The article requires a three-fifths majority vote by the National Assembly to initiate proceedings before the High Court of Justice, an exceptional legal mechanism that has never been activated in the country’s political history.

In a detailed letter accompanying the resolution, Deputy Sagna claims that Macky Sall oversaw financial operations amounting to more than 2,517 billion CFA francs without legal authorization.

According to Sagna, these transactions were conducted outside the framework of any approved finance law and without parliamentary oversight, thereby violating the constitutional principles of transparency, sincerity, and fiscal responsibility.

“It appears from the report of the Court of Auditors that over 2,517 billion CFA francs were committed outside all legal channels, and another 2,562 billion CFA francs were irregularly managed through deposit accounts with the Treasury,” Sagna stated. He highlighted that these accounts operated completely beyond parliamentary scrutiny, pointing to what he called “massive and opaque financial management.”

The deputy further accused the former president’s administration of using irregular accounting techniques to obscure the country’s true fiscal situation. These included unauthorized revenue attachments, unreported expenditures, and off-budget transactions that were neither transmitted to nor approved by the legislature.

“These concealed acts of financial governance were executed without informing or seeking approval from Parliament. They represent a deliberate attempt to bypass republican institutions, mask the real state of public finances, and place an unsanctioned burden on future generations,” Sagna emphasized.

He argued that the severity and recurrence of these actions and their damaging impact on Senegal’s international credibility amount to an “exceptionally grave breach” of duty that meets the constitutional threshold for high treason.

“The policy of systematic concealment and manipulation of public accounts is not just a technical failure—it is an attack on the financial sovereignty of the state,” Sagna said. “It is now up to the National Assembly, in its role as the guardian of republican legality, to fulfill its constitutional responsibility.”

The resolution’s fate now lies with the National Assembly, where Pastef Les Patriotes holds a significant number of seats. Should it garner the required three-fifths majority, it would trigger the unprecedented prosecution of a former Senegalese president by the High Court of Justice.

Observers say the move could mark a turning point in Senegalese politics, testing the country’s democratic institutions and potentially setting a powerful precedent for presidential accountability.

So far, neither Macky Sall nor representatives from his political allies have issued a formal response to the indictment resolution.