Ouagadougou: The President of Faso, Head of State, Captain Ibrahim TRAORE chaired the weekly Council of Ministers this Wednesday. According to the Minister of State, Government Spokesperson, Jean Emmanuel OUEDRAOGO, the Council examined several reports and took important decisions for the smooth running of the Nation.
On behalf of the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Foresight, the Council adopted a decree repealing two decrees regulating the remuneration for specific services of public administration agents, and also regulating the remuneration and specific services of magistrates.
According to the Minister of Economy, Finance and Foresight, Aboubakar NACANABO, the decrees taken in 2012 and 2016 respectively for administration personnel and for magistrates established remuneration within the framework of specific services not falling within current responsibilities of agents. In view of the abuses, the government decided to repeal these decrees.
‘There were services which came under status attribution
s which were remunerated through the remuneration provided for by the decree. After analysis, it was deemed necessary to repeal the decree to ensure that public resources are used judiciously,’ maintained Minister NACANABO. He clarified that measures will be taken for specific situations.
Under the Ministry of Industrial Development, Commerce, Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises, several decrees have been adopted, including the decree regulating the remuneration of general directors of state companies and public establishments of social security, the draft decree regulating the remuneration of staff of state companies and public social security establishments.
Thus, the government is giving itself a deadline of six months for the application of the new decree on the remuneration of general directors. ‘With regard to personnel, the Council decided, in order to always contribute to strengthening the achievements of workers in these different structures, to give a transitional period of one year for the tr
ansition and the taking into account of the remuneration of the personnel in the new framework,’ specified the Minister in charge of Trade, Serge Gnaniodem Poda.
According to him, the adoption of these decrees is a continuation of the strong measures announced by the Head of State aimed at regulating staff remuneration in state companies and public social security establishments.
‘The Head of State gave instructions so that the savings that will result from the adoption of this new benchmark for setting remuneration within these entities can be used to invest in the creation of basic social infrastructure in the health sector, education, teaching for the benefit of the Burkinabè population,’ underlined the minister in charge of trade.
On behalf of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Quarries, the Council adopted a decree laying down conditions for self-production of renewable energy, terms of access for self-producers of renewable energy to the electricity network and conditions of purchase of their excess e
nergy .
For the Minister in charge of Energy, Yacouba Zabré GOUBA, the adoption of this decree will make it possible to correct a certain number of inadequacies noted in the 2019 and 2020 decrees by providing incentive measures to enable self-producers to be able to inject their excess energy into the interconnected national network.
Source: Burkina Information Agency