Witness to the suffering of the two detainees, Farba Ngom and the wife of Madiambal Diagne, former minister Serigne Mbacké Ndiaye said he was deeply concerned about their state of health. He urges President Diomaye Faye to intervene for a humanitarian gesture, reports L’As.
The former minister launched an appeal for clemency from the President of the Republic, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, concerning the situation of these two detainees: the deputy Farba Ngom and Mabintou Diaby, the wife of the journalist Madiambal Diagne. In a letter made public, he recalls having been among the first to raise this matter in the media, before other figures like Babacar Ba and Alioune Tine took it up, underlines L’As.
Serigne Mbacké Ndiaye explains that he visited Farba Ngom twice, not out of personal proximity, but for reasons that he describes as purely humanitarian. He claims to have observed a worrying state of health: a weakened man, trying to mask his pain and whose physical appearance is visibly deteriorating. He also questions the reasons why the judge did not order release despite the medical results that he himself had demanded, notes L’As.
During one of his visits, the former minister observed a disturbing scene: two prison officers were painfully trying to help a sick woman reach her cell. According to him, it was the wife of Madiambal Diagne. He calls on women’s rights organizations to take an interest in his case, believing that no political or judicial consideration should take precedence over the care of a person in distress, reports L’As.
In his letter, Serigne Mbacké Ndiaye takes care to specify that he is not intervening to judge the guilt or innocence of the two detainees. He reaffirms his attachment to the principle of independent judgment, ensuring that his questioning is based on a strictly human posture. “I speak as a human being,” he insists, rejecting any political interpretation of his approach, underlines L’As.
The former minister also expresses a personal conviction: that President Bassirou Diomaye Faye would be able to demonstrate humanism and a sense of responsibility in the face of such a situation. He claims to have confidence in the ability of the head of state to make compassionate decisions, unlike, according to him, certain past leaders who would have displayed a form of indifference in the face of the illness or death of detainees, reports L’As.
In conclusion, Serigne Mbacké Ndiaye addresses a solemn appeal to the President of the Republic, urging him to intervene to relieve the suffering of Farba Ngom and the wife of Madiambal Diagne. For him, it is a question of human dignity and a moral imperative that the Nation cannot ignore, underlines L’As.
