The admonitions of the IMF would they be right of the Guinean authorities? As a reminder, during his last mission in Conakry, experts from the Bretton Woods institution were surprised by the absence of the $ 90 million paid to the State for the award of the 4G license to Orange.
Faced with the steamroller of the media, political parties and civil society, the Minister of Finance, Mamady Camara, sent to the coal, explained: “‘With regard to the 90 million of 4G, the Guinean Government to through the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and the Digital Economy and ORANGE-GUINEA signed a concession agreement for the establishment and operation of 2G, 3G and 4G mobile telecommunications networks for a total amount of twenty-five million US dollars (USD 90,000,000). In this respect, ORANGE-GUINEE has made a transfer of half the price of the renewal of the licenses, ie forty-five million United States dollars (USD 45,000,000) to a transit account of the French Regulatory Authority. Posts and Telecommunications (ARPT). The second half will be paid during the second half of 2019. In connection with the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Economy, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has initiated the necessary administrative measures for the transfer of the transfer amount. on the account of the ARPT to the Public Treasury ”.
The question that arises in the Guinean politico-media landerneau is: why so many delays? The IMF which pleads the uniqueness of the accounts of the State did not appreciate.
