The National Electricity Company of Senegal is going through a financial situation A difficult era according to the secretary-general of the Single Union of Electricity Workers (SUTELEC), Habib Aïdara, who is issuing an alert in the columns of L'Observateur on Thursday.

La Senelec “is in default of payment” this is what Habib Aïdara informs. Complaining about the difficult times that company is going through, he said: “We can no longer bear our expenses, especially the payments from the banks, which no longer grant us overdraft, we have reached the ceilings. Nor can we pay the independent producers who supply us with 74% of the energy we sell. They have already filed letters of formal notice and if Senelec does not pay, they will stop the electricity supply and the country risks being in the dark.

According to him, bad payers are mainly responsible for this situation. He has thus paid attention to a few beginners and that for him the list is long. Note the autonomous agencies (Apix, Ageroute, Anrac, Cour des Comptes, ARTP, etc.) that owe 2.4 billion CFA francs. Parastatal companies (Onas, Sonacos, OFOR, SAED, Grand Théâtre, ASECNA, ISRA...) with 2.6 billion. Similarly, public institutions with financial autonomy (EPAF), such as hospitals, universities and the National Assembly, are $5.8 billion in debt to Senelec. The bill is higher for service companies (Sen'Eau, Sonatel, RTS, Port of Dakar, etc.). It is around 17.4 billion. Local authorities, for their part, owe slightly less, with unpaid bills estimated at around 16 billion. Manufacturers and dealers, for their part, represent a total of 23.7 billion.