Africa-Press – Senegal. The head of the regional trade service of Kaolack (center), Adama Mouhamed Mbaye, stressed Thursday that his services are encountering difficulties in the field, to enforce the regulations in force concerning the rent of premises. for residential use.
“We have received twelve complaints, but we are having difficulties, including those relating to the lessor’s unwillingness to comply with regulations and current legislation. This lack of will is manifested above all by the refusal to come and comply with the summons, ”he said.
Mr. Mbaye was speaking during the official installation of the regional commission for the regulation of the rent of residential premises (CORAREL), a ceremony chaired by the deputy governor of Kaolack in charge of administrative affairs, El Hadji Malick Sémou Diouf, in the presence of many actors concerned by the question of rent.
On this occasion, the head of the regional trade service of Kaolack made an inventory of the situation, in relation to what has been done at the regional level for two and a half months.
The Senegalese government decided last March to lower rents again, a similar measure having been adopted in 2014 without having the expected effects. The donors had found a way around it.
The new reduction in rents is staggered according to the amount, up to 15% for the lowest rents, below 300,000 CFA francs, to 5% for rents above 500,000 CFA francs.
He notes that « technically », basically, there are problems concerning the corrected surface which must be proven. Which, according to him, has never been the case in the Kaolack region.
“The other problem is that in the relationship between the lessor and the lessee (tenant), there is no contract. There is also another issue that relates to lease assignments,” Mr. Mbaye noted. He gives a specific example on this subject: “I replace such a person in his duties, he leaves, I take the house and I continue to live there. There is even the absence of proof of the payment of the rent, generally, there is no receipt, nothing at all”.
Adama Mouhamed Mbaye invited the members of the National Commission for the Regulation of the Rent of Residential Premises (CONAREL) and other stakeholders to advocate so that these problems can be resolved.
This allows, “even if we are in the field of conciliation, to have an exact basis. Until then too, what is appropriate is that we try to settle these issues amicably. If the will is there, there will be no major difficulties,” said Adama Mouhamed Mbaye.
However, he pointed out that there is a social dimension to rent, a situation which, he says, even goes so far as to create bonds between the landlord and the tenant, « until they resemble to members of the same family. If this will is the basis, all the problems that could arise from the rent can have a solution, “adds the head of the Kaolack regional trade service.
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