Hey BBC News Africa do you plan to make a french version of this investigation ? Please ! Senegalese people need to see this and most of us don't speak english
@@daoudaba1628 True. That's why I said poor Africa and it might be the reason why he is calling himself Godfather of west Africa. The problem is widely known. Fortunately, my country were in a court with Timis recently and won the lawsuit.
@@eon001 You're right. The problem is they don't want to. What they are doing is exactly what they want. Hope they will be a new generation of African who will think wisely and broadly for the benefit of African people.
In sane countries a report like this will bring the government down and put people in jail. However, in Africa, everything goes on as if nothing happened. WE ARE OUR OWN PROBLEM
Bro, Senegal will wake up. There are people who will push for it. Specially ex candidate Ousmane Sonko. I HOPE THE government falls and Sonko wins new elections. Or is this an Utopia?
436799 *This ain’t no fake news,we as natives of Senegal know how true this whole thing is* I agree with @JeffChuruMaina , Mayeni conducted this investigation in a great manner 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
I'm so disappointed in President Sall, here I was thinking he was a breath of fresh air after the reign of President Wade, but I guess it's a case of more of the same...
I am sorry but all african leaders are guilty of corruption until proven innocent, Why do you think our continent is so poor, This has been going on for over 300 yrs
Bro, am Senegalese and am telling you that he's the worst president that has ever been elected. Even the Last elections were rigged. He nominated his own brother in law as minister, his younger brother is managing a multi billion cfa funds, he's locking up political opponents, people from his own party are above the law. He's damn corrupt, a real M*****F***er.
I'm not surprised! Local journalists have been talking about this for years but nothing has been done. Shame on Sall's family, you don’t deserve to lead our wonderful country. 🇸🇳
such leaders will be wiped away soon. remember african sun has just shone. its already ta sun rise . that who thought it was all dark and did dirty action will soon remain in that dark as we go to th light. otherwise one should not be such selfish as sall. that was too much ,,, yeah ,,,beyond humanity,,,he should have been out of office that very second
😂😂 he’s stunned and I understand his facial expression. How can they steal all that money? Even in 10 lifetimes, they can’t finish that. What a disrespect and betrayal to Senegalese people
PEtrotim was a facade. PEtro tim is MAcky Sall and Aliou Sall and Frank Timis. they sold the gas to themselves and sold their parts to BP. It is a high level robbery
Thanks u Mayeni Jones. Good job! But, suspicious contracts over oil and gas explotation is nothing new in Senegal. They have been previously mentioned by a couple of politicians all along their compaign. It needed to be evidenced, and you did it. Thx !!!
It's the royalties people forget the $25k/month salary. That's peanuts. The royalties are in billions of dollars over 40 yrs, that's where Macky Sall and his brother will make their killing off the back of the poor Senegalese peasant. These offshore companies that are minority shareholders in Timis Corporation are wholly owned by Macky Sall, his brother and their cronies. In a country where horse-driven carriages are used as ambulances to carry pregnant women for miles to see a midwife to help with delivering their babies. In a country where power and potable water shortages are as common place as mosquitoes in the summer. Etc etc. I drop my head in shame. We are a cursed people.
I am Gambian🇬🇲 and Senegal🇸🇳 is my like my second home. It is really sad how our own people, our African leaders can betray us for money this is the reason why we remain in poverty. I hope you guys have French subtitles at least so the people that do not understand English can understand what is being said.
I think this is where the African people need to stop blaming the rest of the world for their problems and get to Fixing the problems on the inside. Yes the past is littered with assault from other countries, but that is the past and that can not be changed. Now deal with the present and get things fixed and running smoothly so you can move forward as a nation to grow. It is up to you people to re-construct your house....... This is your land and nation. Go forward ... Now.
Since Colonization: Corruption French - Gold & Diamond Trade British - Oil Trade U.S - Dumping Food Aid putting local farmers out of market. U.N - meanwhile monitoring poor pirates of Somali coast 😂😭
You have to do your own research how piracy started? Somali people are not piracy it is the people that stealing the fish resources diamond oil Uranium gold soil name name name you should a shame of yourself
Ousmane Sonko warned it in his book earlier before that video got out. You guys should pay attention to him and read :Pétrole et gaz au Sénégal, chronique d’une spoliation published in 2017.
I would love to get this book, has it got an English translation. I'm from Ghana I love to find anything that will help me to understand WHYYYYY, we are the way we are in Africa. Because I don't understand the greed and the hurt we inflict on ourselves
Marco K That's exactly my point. He didn't have to call himself like that. It's so disrespectful in so many ways especially given the context. Godfather!? I mean c'mon
Kungfu Panda you’re right about how hard you guys work unfortunately you will still have extra ignorant ppl who prefer the negative stereotypes versus the truth. It helps them continue the narrative of being the smartest people on the planet. Look at the US and you can see it in it’s truest form. Don’t allow the west to write the narrative of Africa, don’t allow the west too continue to put puppet leaders in place that continues the rape of your country by the western nation’s. The weakness of those in power are constantly allowing themselves to be swayed by money and not for the betterment of the country & people.smh
Isaiah Kyuga 😂😂 U are quite funny. U have no idea who I am nor where I was born or raised. The only thing u are summarizing is how out of touch u are with PEOPLE in general and all over and how you have held yourself in bondage to your undeniably ignorant thinking.
@@MirikaCOfficially LOL. Such mindless thinking on his part but he called you lazy 😂😂😂. I think he needs to put some work on his neurons by way of his eyeballs doing proper reading
Isaiah Kyuga yes like 1.2 billion africans are running to the west right now.... You people are funny... Do you know the common destination for african migrants? Their neighbouring countries. Funny that you think the ordinary people actually gets to benefit from that ”help” you are talking about, only the corrupt politicians benefit from that while thet storw the money in their banks in Switzerland. You wouldn’t last 1 weak in Senegal before you started crying for the government to change your diapers.
Mayeni jones could you please investigate my country too the Gambia because we also have oil and gas. I have no idea why African leaders are so cruel to there own peoples. It's very sad
Njai you could right because our so called authorities are too quiet about it and perhaps they might be operating secretly as ADO barrow always says that macky sall is his twin mafia brother.so these is also a wake up alarmed for the Gambians as well.
We need this kind of investigation in Kenya, whenever you scratch any project in Kenya, there is more to it. We will welcome you in Kenya with both hands because our media has been bought too. Corruption is everywhere
What a disgrace and what a shame, it is clear that neither the president nor his brother truly grasp the real value of these concessions, while Frank Tumiss counts his money in billions, these two idiots count theirs in thousands lol. I hope the world sees this as outrageous and take actions therefrom, international warrant should be issued for all these greedy bastards involved. I demand that all contracts be nulled and firm prosecution be implemented to everyone involved in this global scam, as this clearly remain a matter that directly involves not only the Senegalese, but also the USA and the British government, they should take firm actions to condemn and prosecute this Al Capone style of government. Enough respect to the BBC journalist, what a great investigation, this should be a gansta movie for real. Jaa jeuf...😤
Non brother, they Will share all thé royalties. This is only what we dicovered but i can assure you that all the président and his brother own shares in timis's companies...
@@alithegreatest4208 u r not the only one Who feel insultes. This is à shame for all of us. I have always refused the critics from thé europeans but now i am about resigning and accept that something is wrong with us. If Africa is still this poor, it's because of Black africans themselves....
@ ALi.. We Africans are respectively always waiting on others to do things for us. Corruption been practices by whom for ages/ centuries. Whose been raised Africa to enriched their monarchy for centuries? And with whom help, ignorant African leaders,!! All the thousands they covet where did they banks? In Western banks? Did they learnt much from our past governments? No!! Look at China now our modern colonial, India with all it's social illness will soon over passed us, cause we had no shame as a people, to rebuilt our continent, to used what G-D gave us in abundance trying to gain from it for the people and buildings an empire out of it. Trump!! Said it loud. Africans leaders are a disgrace of themselves. Am satisfy for where am from, we are not perfect, but we as a people chase our Gov to better themselves and we are getting better. But 56 countries out of Africa continent, are still in messy conditions due to cursive corruption.
It's strange but I cannot help but think about the French Carlos Ghosn when I hear this story on Franck Timis. There are so many rich and corrupt people who are getting away with so many crimes at the international level.
MARIO de ANGOLA stupid to say what you said, do you really think he even cares about being embarrassed, he is a thief and a traitor so embarrassment is the last thing he cares about, it’s the money stupid he cares about the most, wake up Senegal as a country is being robbed and you speak of embarrassment, this should cause the people to go to the street, he embezzled the equivalent of Senegal gross domestic product per year, it’s almost the annual budget of Senegal. So what do you think embarrassment still the right word to use and who cares how he feels as oppose to what he did, if this is how Senegalese people think then they deserve that kind of leader.
karim Bouarfa I meant, embarrassed just because of the BBC report. Even the leader of opposition party it has been quite surprised in this report with the articles showing proofs about President Sall’s brother involved in this traffic influence business...However, the guy didn’t assume, but all of us we know that’s likely true.
I would love to speak with the in-house lawyers and General Counsels at BP who did the due diligence on Timis Corp. Also I would dearly love to know the law firms BP used on this deal. That would be the best legal gossip for a long time.
We Africans are our own worst enemies. We complain about corrupt politicians but what we fail to realise is that these politicians are not from Mars, they are from our own communities. If it were you or I in their position we'd probably be corrupt too. All over the continent we do not see corruption as a cancer but rather as the "smart thing to do". Unfortunately, we complain about corruption but we have a pro-corruption mentality.
You are so right. We need to change our mentality first before we can actually fight corruption! N it needs to start at a very young age...need to teach our children was is right.
As a Sierra Leonean, I know how foreign investors in the mining sector have recked our country. The painful part of the continuous exploitation business is that our people in authority give these fraudsters a working platform. They do all the groundwork for them reaping the people from what belongs to them. We the young generation look forward to governments in Africa that will put the people at heart when giving licenses to foreign companies for our natural minerals.
But he’s a french puppet, all the french colonies are french colonies still and only got further autonomy. Guinea was the only country to get full independence so they unlike the french colonies dont have french troops or military bases in their country and dont use CFA. Majority of the african coups have been in the french colonies with France at the front of them, one of the latest in ivory Coast 2011.
wow, comprehensive summary, so sad how African leaders are enticed by the smaller picture that is themselves and forget to build a better world for the coming generations please BBC, can you also do one Zimbabwe's Diamonds, cause we don't know where they go, who they benefit coz we are not seeing their impact on our economy, someone is taking advantage of our nation
Who originally gave Frank Timis the concessions? Sall merely continued with the corruption! Why does this program not spend any time looking into that?
Tears in my eyes ,cannot understand why all the time we africans we elect the most stupid people to lead us.Thank you Mayeni Jones may good Africa spirits be with you.
I remember i saw a documentary about macky sall. He came out like he was genuine and a man of his word. Now i believe money and power can sometimes make you go mad. This what President Putin always says- africa will never go far because of greed and we put the white man ahead of our own people. Am disgusted!! can you imagine what 9billion can do to Senegal's people? It can make it look like a 1st world country if well budgeted????
How can we develop our continent with this kind of belly politics 🤷🏽♀️ I am shocked 😳. People of Africa it’s high time to elect the right people in the right place.
Lol I don't know about the rest of Africa but in French-speaking Africa presidents are not "elected" , they are selected by France, and their ministers are just as corrupt as them
It's a real pity for our country to live with this kind of deals, and nobody knonws what is really happening in our country. So please a french version will be a pleasure, because most of us want to know this, and they don't understand english. My self it's from this video that know who own PetroTim. Shame on corruption around dear poor country
@@mbch7ji2 Thanks a Friend Come to send me the french version down WhatsApp, and the sharing step has started, now it's a duty to let people know about what is really happening 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Bandit4true Love it’s Senegalese government that are stupid in this matter allowing a Romanian to play tricks on then as u said even the president brother getting peanuts 🥜 for brides.. this nothing to do with africa I’m afraid ...
@@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 i truly understand were the blame should be and its with the leaders of Senegal. I am so mad and flabbergasted to see how inept and corrupt these politicians are that they are willing to sell out the entire country for peanuts. And yes it has to do with Africa because situations like this one can be found throughout the continent in mant different African countries. Not all of them but a great deal of the leadership in Africa is out for themselves.
@@Pilotalphapapa its shameful this politicians are truly idiots and very dumb. For 250 thousand while the business people will make billions. How does this make any sense at all.
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
@@buchilomoyo5886 I agree with you on the machanism of it, but to assume that this strongman fails to position himself in the big picture and spectacularly underestimates the potential of the deal, is rather simplistic. This narrative of corruption/bribes being perpertrated individually, i.e only a single person is involved, is misleading. There has to be landscape, a network, that facilitates it: teamwork and coordination is key for the whole racket to work. That's why 1m appears too small and improbable a figure, to acceptably sort out all the key players.
@@kurtstraemann470 I take your point. This exposé is just the tip of the iceberg. IF they ever dig deeper into the shareholders of this Timis Corp, there is probably a complex international network at play. That seems to be recurring theme these days.
When an African looks around as if he is hiding something,like the opposition MP is doing, you know that what you told is mind blowing. I do that all the time.
As a Senegalese, and as a African, this makes me sick! As President you need to put your country and your people first no matter the situation, there’s no excuse. It’s sad.
My Senegalese brothers and sisters, It's sad to see this greed depicted by our unable African leaders. You are not alone! Africa is facing this same problem all together! I'm from Kenya and we too lose 10's of Billions through massive looting of public funds by leaders. These leaders don't steal in the process of work, they work in the process of stealing! We have the youngest population as a continent but the poverty is impoverishing minds thanks to our unstable old style of govt where old men stay in govt for years awaiting the top job. We need to rise and kick out this behaviour of massive looting and selling of public wealth to benefit private pockets. We need to arise and revolt. Let's wake up or we may sleep forever as a continent.😣😣
I wish a same investigation is done with the gold mining and export in Uganda. An estimation of over 800mio USD is earned annually from this trade but wondering where the money is going provided that almost every government project in Uganda now is financed by loans
Please BBC, if that is what our so-called leaders did, help us find out everything gloomy about this deal and get back all what we Senegalese people have lost and benefit from our natural ressources.😭😭😭
Ousmane Sonko has been criticizing this company over 2 years and nobody didn’t get it. 🤔 It’s so clear. Y’all should have an interview with him.
Zz
Hey BBC News Africa do you plan to make a french version of this investigation ? Please !
Senegalese people need to see this and most of us don't speak english
I think TH-cam have subtitles
@@covfefecafe2494 yeah i just see they added the french version. Thanks
This had been said by Thierno Alassane Sall, reason why he left the government. Unfortunately, our people don’t want some change
@@ndiayebecayecissokho Are you referring to french subtitles? I can't see any language options on mobile
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I can't stop my tears even though I am not Senegalese. Poor Africa
It's depressing. And sadly not surprising. I don't know what it's going to take for African leaders to wake up and take control of there continent.
Frank Timiss a été présenté aux Sénégalais par votre ancien Président Compaore Il a déjà travaillé au Burkina Faso.,Simple renseignement.
@@daoudaba1628 True. That's why I said poor Africa and it might be the reason why he is calling himself Godfather of west Africa. The problem is widely known.
Fortunately, my country were in a court with Timis recently and won the lawsuit.
@@eon001 You're right. The problem is they don't want to. What they are doing is exactly what they want. Hope they will be a new generation of African who will think wisely and broadly for the benefit of African people.
@@reviewsite6292 I can't agree more.
In sane countries a report like this will bring the government down and put people in jail. However, in Africa, everything goes on as if nothing happened. WE ARE OUR OWN PROBLEM
Bro, Senegal will wake up. There are people who will push for it. Specially ex candidate Ousmane Sonko. I HOPE THE government falls and Sonko wins new elections. Or is this an Utopia?
agreed
Hi Lumi Dia, sadly enough i think you are 100% right......
unfortunately that's not always true. There are corrupt leaders everywhere.
@@birdyelke775True!! I remember an Austrian government was brought down because of that. Not in Africa
Big up Mayeni Jones, an example of a confident reporter.
Any Panorama presenter is dishonest. All of the BBC is fake news
Kikuyu?
436799 *This ain’t no fake news,we as natives of Senegal know how true this whole thing is* I agree with @JeffChuruMaina , Mayeni conducted this investigation in a great manner 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
@@debbopoulo2816 maybe the BBC told the truth but it would be the first time. Do your research. The BBC only lie
This is what I call good investigating journalism, good job BBC
I'm so disappointed in President Sall, here I was thinking he was a breath of fresh air after the reign of President Wade, but I guess it's a case of more of the same...
I am sorry but all african leaders are guilty of corruption until proven innocent, Why do you think our continent is so poor, This has been going on for over 300 yrs
Shubi Mukolera 😂😂😂😂sorry ur brutal wake bro.don’t be fool
Shubi Mukolera 😂😂😂sorry for your brutal wake.macky sall worse president senegal ever had.R.I.P thomas sankara,malcolm X,cheikh Anta Diop
The worst is the la francofonie.of france stealing 550.billion usd per year..from 14 african states.
Bro, am Senegalese and am telling you that he's the worst president that has ever been elected. Even the Last elections were rigged. He nominated his own brother in law as minister, his younger brother is managing a multi billion cfa funds, he's locking up political opponents, people from his own party are above the law. He's damn corrupt, a real M*****F***er.
President Sall should be in jail with his brother and accomplices.
Absolutely
Not enough place in jail to put all of them
What kind of diploma to deserve $25 000 dollars a month/5years (880.620000 CFA)in a poor country like Senegal? , no wonder it’s corruption...
Its Really painful to watch
I'm not surprised! Local journalists have been talking about this for years but nothing has been done. Shame on Sall's family, you don’t deserve to lead our wonderful country. 🇸🇳
YOU ARE RIGHT
Get rid 9f him before it gets worse
such leaders will be wiped away soon. remember african sun has just shone. its already ta sun rise . that who thought it was all dark and did dirty action will soon remain in that dark as we go to th light. otherwise one should not be such selfish as sall. that was too much ,,, yeah ,,,beyond humanity,,,he should have been out of office that very second
The expression of that opposition MP to the $9 billion figure tho 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
Priceless
That is the term I was looking for
😂😂 he’s stunned and I understand his facial expression. How can they steal all that money? Even in 10 lifetimes, they can’t finish that. What a disrespect and betrayal to Senegalese people
@@Tomyato to call them greedy is an understatement bro.
Olad Mohammed you’re right, bro. Being an honest can be a difficult task. But to steal all this amount of money, just wow 😭😭
I always ask myself as an african"what did we do to deserve leaders like this one"
Hope that justice will be served
It's not what you did, but what you didn't do. :- )
@@albejaine
😅😅😅
Africa please wake up this time is your time I'm from Somalia God bless Africa
GREATER SOMALIA
@@jebrilabdulazeez okay sir
@@jebrilabdulazeez No comment sir
basically, the company was just a facade which helped to facilitate the sale of the blocs to BP.
PEtrotim was a facade. PEtro tim is MAcky Sall and Aliou Sall and Frank Timis. they sold the gas to themselves and sold their parts to BP. It is a high level robbery
Thanks u Mayeni Jones. Good job!
But, suspicious contracts over oil and gas explotation is nothing new in Senegal. They have been previously mentioned by a couple of politicians all along their compaign. It needed to be evidenced, and you did it. Thx !!!
BP WILL NOT GET ANOTHER PENNY OF MY MONEY...NEVER!!!
It's the royalties people forget the $25k/month salary. That's peanuts.
The royalties are in billions of dollars over 40 yrs, that's where Macky Sall and his brother will make their killing off the back of the poor Senegalese peasant. These offshore companies that are minority shareholders in Timis Corporation are wholly owned by Macky Sall, his brother and their cronies.
In a country where horse-driven carriages are used as ambulances to carry pregnant women for miles to see a midwife to help with delivering their babies. In a country where power and potable water shortages are as common place as mosquitoes in the summer. Etc etc.
I drop my head in shame. We are a cursed people.
Man you are the only one Who really undrestand thé situation....
I totally agree we curse people
We're not curse just wicked and stupid
I am Gambian🇬🇲 and Senegal🇸🇳 is my like my second home. It is really sad how our own people, our African leaders can betray us for money this is the reason why we remain in poverty. I hope you guys have French subtitles at least so the people that do not understand English can understand what is being said.
This documentary gives headaches diarrhea and unexplained anger to destroy everything around me. Senegalese people have to do something
Gal Gal Gal I know, I’m from Botswana and I feel the same because I’m African 😢 this affect me.
I think this is where the African people need to stop blaming the rest of the world for their problems and get to Fixing the problems on the inside. Yes the past is littered with assault from other countries, but that is the past and that can not be changed. Now deal with the present and get things fixed and running smoothly so you can move forward as a nation to grow. It is up to you people to re-construct your house....... This is your land and nation. Go forward ... Now.
A perfect 👌 example of superb investigative journalism👏🏼
Since Colonization: Corruption
French - Gold & Diamond Trade
British - Oil Trade
U.S - Dumping Food Aid putting local farmers out of market.
U.N - meanwhile monitoring poor pirates of Somali coast 😂😭
They have to protect their interest
You have to do your own research how piracy started? Somali people are not piracy it is the people that stealing the fish resources diamond oil Uranium gold soil name name name you should a shame of yourself
@@aaminacalibadiye8862 abaayo waan ogahay. Lol runta burcad badeedka ey marakibta khayradka wadanka difacayaan.
@@aaminacalibadiye8862 exactly
@@aaminacalibadiye8862 yh ur right
Ousmane Sonko warned it in his book earlier before that video got out. You guys should pay attention to him and read :Pétrole et gaz au Sénégal, chronique d’une spoliation published in 2017.
I would love to get this book, has it got an English translation. I'm from Ghana I love to find anything that will help me to understand WHYYYYY, we are the way we are in Africa. Because I don't understand the greed and the hurt we inflict on ourselves
At 21:09 the MP could not Believe what he heard...what a shame
Ronah Shield lifestyle Show Ronah ,c
Oh poor Senegal what a pity
5:20 "The Godfather of West Africa". LMAO
Lord have mercy!!!
Marco K That's exactly my point. He didn't have to call himself like that. It's so disrespectful in so many ways especially given the context. Godfather!? I mean c'mon
I hope President Barrow of The Gambia is watching..
Too late
21:37 The reaction of Sir Lamine Diallo is priceless . He is Like " Damn how was that possible" 😁😁
Ohmy us poor we will still get poor
As Senegalese After watching this😭😭 really feel sorry for myself and our kids😡😡
thank you BBC for the great work you have done ✅
The Gambia is doom too. BP get out
One word to BBC and reporter Mayeni Jones : THANKS !
RIP Macky Sall Saï Saï and here's family
SENEGAL🇸🇳😭😭😢😢😢😢🤲🏿🙏
Please translate this important investigative documentary into French.
Great documentary, please do one on Nigeria
Yess oo
He calls himself the “godfather of West Africa”😂😂😂 Wow!
Kungfu Panda you’re right about how hard you guys work unfortunately you will still have extra ignorant ppl who prefer the negative stereotypes versus the truth. It helps them continue the narrative of being the smartest people on the planet. Look at the US and you can see it in it’s truest form. Don’t allow the west to write the narrative of Africa, don’t allow the west too continue to put puppet leaders in place that continues the rape of your country by the western nation’s. The weakness of those in power are constantly allowing themselves to be swayed by money and not for the betterment of the country & people.smh
Isaiah Kyuga 😂😂 U are quite funny. U have no idea who I am nor where I was born or raised. The only thing u are summarizing is how out of touch u are with PEOPLE in general and all over and how you have held yourself in bondage to your undeniably ignorant thinking.
A Romanian for that matter. One of the most backward countries in Europe
@@MirikaCOfficially LOL. Such mindless thinking on his part but he called you lazy 😂😂😂. I think he needs to put some work on his neurons by way of his eyeballs doing proper reading
Isaiah Kyuga yes like 1.2 billion africans are running to the west right now.... You people are funny... Do you know the common destination for african migrants? Their neighbouring countries. Funny that you think the ordinary people actually gets to benefit from that ”help” you are talking about, only the corrupt politicians benefit from that while thet storw the money in their banks in Switzerland. You wouldn’t last 1 weak in Senegal before you started crying for the government to change your diapers.
Mayeni jones could you please investigate my country too the Gambia because we also have oil and gas. I have no idea why African leaders are so cruel to there own peoples. It's very sad
ismaila njie mind u, it was the African leaders who sold our people into slavery!!! People do strange things for a piece of change
Bro, senegal isn't different from The Gambia, we're the same people.
Njai you could right because our so called authorities are too quiet about it and perhaps they might be operating secretly as ADO barrow always says that macky sall is his twin mafia brother.so these is also a wake up alarmed for the Gambians as well.
Long live Mayeni Jones.
Africa loves you.
BP have recently signed a deal with Gambia for fuel ......Senegal is our neighbour.
Thats rigth
Haha they steal the oil from you and sell it back to you. Evil bastards
Thanks BBC AFRICA for opening our eyes
We need this kind of investigation in Kenya, whenever you scratch any project in Kenya, there is more to it. We will welcome you in Kenya with both hands because our media has been bought too. Corruption is everywhere
This is excellent work by Mayeni Jones, her reporting style is spot on. She needs to do more of this.
What a disgrace and what a shame, it is clear that neither the president nor his brother truly grasp the real value of these concessions, while Frank Tumiss counts his money in billions, these two idiots count theirs in thousands lol. I hope the world sees this as outrageous and take actions therefrom, international warrant should be issued for all these greedy bastards involved. I demand that all contracts be nulled and firm prosecution be implemented to everyone involved in this global scam, as this clearly remain a matter that directly involves not only the Senegalese, but also the USA and the British government, they should take firm actions to condemn and prosecute this Al Capone style of government. Enough respect to the BBC journalist, what a great investigation, this should be a gansta movie for real. Jaa jeuf...😤
Non brother, they Will share all thé royalties. This is only what we dicovered but i can assure you that all the président and his brother own shares in timis's companies...
Ama Diouf
Yeah your theory make sense bro, I am just sadden, how these people can be so greedy and so stupid at the same damn time, I feel insulted.
@@alithegreatest4208 u r not the only one Who feel insultes. This is à shame for all of us. I have always refused the critics from thé europeans but now i am about resigning and accept that something is wrong with us. If Africa is still this poor, it's because of Black africans themselves....
@ ALi.. We Africans are respectively always waiting on others to do things for us. Corruption been practices by whom for ages/ centuries. Whose been raised Africa to enriched their monarchy for centuries? And with whom help, ignorant African leaders,!! All the thousands they covet where did they banks? In Western banks? Did they learnt much from our past governments? No!! Look at China now our modern colonial, India with all it's social illness will soon over passed us, cause we had no shame as a people, to rebuilt our continent, to used what G-D gave us in abundance trying to gain from it for the people and buildings an empire out of it. Trump!! Said it loud. Africans leaders are a disgrace of themselves. Am satisfy for where am from, we are not perfect, but we as a people chase our Gov to better themselves and we are getting better. But 56 countries out of Africa continent, are still in messy conditions due to cursive corruption.
Well said!
It's strange but I cannot help but think about the French Carlos Ghosn when I hear this story on Franck Timis.
There are so many rich and corrupt people who are getting away with so many crimes at the international level.
Thanks sister for the nice job done.
Stay bless
Please post this on the main youtube channel of bbc (bbc news)
The whole world should know about this
President Sall is in a big trouble...So embarrassed!
MARIO de ANGOLA stupid to say what you said, do you really think he even cares about being embarrassed, he is a thief and a traitor so embarrassment is the last thing he cares about, it’s the money stupid he cares about the most, wake up Senegal as a country is being robbed and you speak of embarrassment, this should cause the people to go to the street, he embezzled the equivalent of Senegal gross domestic product per year, it’s almost the annual budget of Senegal. So what do you think embarrassment still the right word to use and who cares how he feels as oppose to what he did, if this is how Senegalese people think then they deserve that kind of leader.
karim Bouarfa I meant, embarrassed just because of the BBC report. Even the leader of opposition party it has been quite surprised in this report with the articles showing proofs about President Sall’s brother involved in this traffic influence business...However, the guy didn’t assume, but all of us we know that’s likely true.
we need many Paul Kagame for all our African countries to grow but not our current president leech
Paul Kagame is one of the most corrupt presidents in Africa, responsible for so many deaths in the Ugandan genocide when he presents himself as a hero
vimeo.com/107867605 watch this and then you will understand
@@tompcd1189 thank you
AFRICA WAKE UP! IT'S 21 CENTURY AND USE YOUR BRAIN!
I would love to speak with the in-house lawyers and General Counsels at BP who did the due diligence on Timis Corp. Also I would dearly love to know the law firms BP used on this deal. That would be the best legal gossip for a long time.
Yes. Full transparency. Please read ClintonCash. Eye opening on ww deals cut by Clinton foundation.
His face at 21:07 😂😂😂😂😂 I was dying lol
We Africans are our own worst enemies. We complain about corrupt politicians but what we fail to realise is that these politicians are not from Mars, they are from our own communities. If it were you or I in their position we'd probably be corrupt too. All over the continent we do not see corruption as a cancer but rather as the "smart thing to do". Unfortunately, we complain about corruption but we have a pro-corruption mentality.
You are so right. We need to change our mentality first before we can actually fight corruption! N it needs to start at a very young age...need to teach our children was is right.
As a Sierra Leonean, I know how foreign investors in the mining sector have recked our country. The painful part of the continuous exploitation business is that our people in authority give these fraudsters a working platform. They do all the groundwork for them reaping the people from what belongs to them.
We the young generation look forward to governments in Africa that will put the people at heart when giving licenses to foreign companies for our natural minerals.
The Senegalese parliament should sue to cancel the deal with all parties involved.
They should! They can no longer claim they don't know. The information is out there for everyone to see
@@mbch7ji2 Do you know WHAT is a Parlement in Africa,?Are you African?
@@daoudaba1628Yes I'm an African. Why do you ask?
Maybe their hands are dirty this is Africa even this story from BBC came to light because some people my have been short changed in Europe my thought.
@@mbch7ji2 Parlements in French speaking Africa are under the heels of Presidents.Sorry for my poor English.
the Senegalese government should have just invested in the local companies and ensure they have the capacity to exploit their own oil.
What did you expect from a President who preferred French Cameraman than Senegalese one.
But he’s a french puppet, all the french colonies are french colonies still and only got further autonomy. Guinea was the only country to get full independence so they unlike the french colonies dont have french troops or military bases in their country and dont use CFA. Majority of the african coups have been in the french colonies with France at the front of them, one of the latest in ivory Coast 2011.
@@TheIrbe Yes,it is true.
BBC please look into the way of Ghana’s oil and gas industry as well .. thank you
Is so sad to see Africa not moving forward 😭😭
Kerr Amadou GMB it’s Senegal not africa u brainwashed learn ur geography
Don't hate. Counting them dollars!!!
wow, comprehensive summary, so sad how African leaders are enticed by the smaller picture that is themselves and forget to build a better world for the coming generations
please BBC, can you also do one Zimbabwe's Diamonds, cause we don't know where they go, who they benefit coz we are not seeing their impact on our economy, someone is taking advantage of our nation
This is the same as ANGOLA,the Dos Santos family you know!?
*We should have a WOLOF (Major Language in Senegal) version so all Senegalese people can understand what the Sall Family did to us*
Thanks BBC
Who originally gave Frank Timis the concessions?
Sall merely continued with the corruption!
Why does this program not spend any time looking into that?
Nice job BBC. Everything is clear now. I am so disappointed and ashamed about our leaders. 10 billion dollars 😱😱😱
Even the money they are getting is not 1%. Thiefs without ambition.
So true. They traded billions for thousands of dollars.
Great piece 👍🏿👊🏿✊🏿
I'm from Guinea Conakry 🇬🇳 but believe me guys my heart is bleeding right now 😭😭😭😭😭
Tears in my eyes ,cannot understand why all the time we africans we elect the most stupid people to lead us.Thank you Mayeni Jones may good Africa spirits be with you.
Because they always give us bag of rice 🍚 and oil for our votes. This is what it looks like to sell your future
"BP doesn't know"...sure, sure....
I thought that 400yrs is Enough but still the greed continues😂😕
Yep
7:37 If you're rich you don't have to pay taxes. Prove me wrong.
I remember i saw a documentary about macky sall. He came out like he was genuine and a man of his word. Now i believe money and power can sometimes make you go mad. This what President Putin always says- africa will never go far because of greed and we put the white man ahead of our own people. Am disgusted!!
can you imagine what 9billion can do to Senegal's people? It can make it look like a 1st world country if well budgeted????
I am from Mauritius, part of sub Saharan Africa. This is the tragedy of Africa.
How can we develop our continent with this kind of belly politics 🤷🏽♀️ I am shocked 😳. People of Africa it’s high time to elect the right people in the right place.
Lol I don't know about the rest of Africa but in French-speaking Africa presidents are not "elected" , they are selected by France, and their ministers are just as corrupt as them
J4 Genius right 👌🏼
Well done, thank you for this eye opening piece.
Leaderless continent sad so sad 😭😭
In Kenya leaders are worse than that????
Congratulations Jones. God bless u
It's a real pity for our country to live with this kind of deals, and nobody knonws what is really happening in our country.
So please a french version will be a pleasure, because most of us want to know this, and they don't understand english.
My self it's from this video that know who own PetroTim.
Shame on corruption around dear poor country
It is in French my friend. Find and share it on facebook until everyone in Senegal sees it
@@mbch7ji2 Thanks a Friend Come to send me the french version down WhatsApp, and the sharing step has started, now it's a duty to let people know about what is really happening 🙏🏾🙏🏾
@@omarndiaye3756Good. Pls share it on Facebook and give it to privately owned TV and radio stations
This makes my blood boil even after death I will never forgive all who harm Africans I swear on this
please bring more
Ousmane sonko was right all along Allah protect sonko
Thanks Meyeni Jones for the excellent investigative work. We should keep exposing them one after another!
The money the brother is getting peanuts. The politician from Senegal said hes surprise. He should be outraged
Nothing changes in africa
Bandit4true Love it’s Senegalese government that are stupid in this matter allowing a Romanian to play tricks on then as u said even the president brother getting peanuts 🥜 for brides.. this nothing to do with africa I’m afraid ...
@@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 i truly understand were the blame should be and its with the leaders of Senegal. I am so mad and flabbergasted to see how inept and corrupt these politicians are that they are willing to sell out the entire country for peanuts. And yes it has to do with Africa because situations like this one can be found throughout the continent in mant different African countries. Not all of them but a great deal of the leadership in Africa is out for themselves.
Imagine all its takes $250000 to sell out your country...disgraceful
@@Pilotalphapapa its shameful this politicians are truly idiots and very dumb. For 250 thousand while the business people will make billions. How does this make any sense at all.
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
21:02 believe me cat was only shocked he couldn’t play with the lion.
Africa is a joke.
Emmanuel Ufot 😂😂
So the total claimed bribe is about 1m but the profits are in billions..There is more to this than what's being presented.
That's how it usually works - give the strongman some trinkets and he will make sure you are not disturbed while you snag all the valuables
@@buchilomoyo5886 I agree with you on the machanism of it, but to assume that this strongman fails to position himself in the big picture and spectacularly underestimates the potential of the deal, is rather simplistic. This narrative of corruption/bribes being perpertrated individually, i.e only a single person is involved, is misleading. There has to be landscape, a network, that facilitates it: teamwork and coordination is key for the whole racket to work. That's why 1m appears too small and improbable a figure, to acceptably sort out all the key players.
@@kurtstraemann470 I take your point. This exposé is just the tip of the iceberg. IF they ever dig deeper into the shareholders of this Timis Corp, there is probably a complex international network at play. That seems to be recurring theme these days.
FYI "Timis" in Wollof language means dusk. He is literally taking them into darkness/doom. They should have looked at this coincidence
Timiș is a county in Romania.
@@reggiekrager5411 Frank Timis stole hundreds of woods of northern part of romania
She’s a great reporter. Good job
Timis , this name make me fear. In Senegal timis is a moment or hour that demons get out . Senegalese people should stand up and fight.
When an African looks around as if he is hiding something,like the opposition MP is doing, you know that what you told is mind blowing. I do that all the time.
I pray for money but money makes some people evil.
As a Senegalese, and as a African, this makes me sick! As President you need to put your country and your people first no matter the situation, there’s no excuse. It’s sad.
Good job sister make me proud!!!!!!
My Senegalese brothers and sisters, It's sad to see this greed depicted by our unable African leaders. You are not alone! Africa is facing this same problem all together! I'm from Kenya and we too lose 10's of Billions through massive looting of public funds by leaders. These leaders don't steal in the process of work, they work in the process of stealing! We have the youngest population as a continent but the poverty is impoverishing minds thanks to our unstable old style of govt where old men stay in govt for years awaiting the top job. We need to rise and kick out this behaviour of massive looting and selling of public wealth to benefit private pockets. We need to arise and revolt. Let's wake up or we may sleep forever as a continent.😣😣
Journalism takes real guts i applaud you! Timis is no ordinary thug....
Blaming whites for your own corruption is part of why you fail.
Your acceptance of corrupt "leaders" is what brings you pain.
And you wonder why Africa won’t develop?😂🤣😭🤦♂️🙄
I wish a same investigation is done with the gold mining and export in Uganda. An estimation of over 800mio USD is earned annually from this trade but wondering where the money is going provided that almost every government project in Uganda now is financed by loans
When will Africans wake up?
They are wide awake.They want some money in their pocket.That is All.
I wish you can say this to my face , you of a bitch !!
I was worried that the deal was truly clean and transparent.
Bbc versus BP! Ah what an odd!
Hey African people if African politicians don't think like president Magfuli GET RID OF THEM PERIOD
Haqqq
Terrible
Please BBC, if that is what our so-called leaders did, help us find out everything gloomy about this deal and get back all what we Senegalese people have lost and benefit from our natural ressources.😭😭😭