The inter-union of local government workers has expressed its demand for a rapid revision of their status in accordance with the state's policy of reorganizing and restructuring the local civil service. This was an invitation from the president of this inter-union, Daouda Badiane, following the training session for around thirty workers from the region's local authorities as part of the establishment of the local civil service. The president of the inter-union of local government workers, Daouda Badiane, who welcomed this series of training sessions initiated by Ziguinchor, stated that this approach helps resolve the issue of the usefulness and importance of municipal employees. "The municipal employee is an agent of public law," he declared, before specifying that there has always been confusion on this issue.

Daouda Badiane hopes that after these training sessions this issue will be resolved definitively and that Senegal will finally have quality staff. According to the president of the inter-union of local government workers, the need for training to have viable local governments is clear.

The mayor of Mlomp Bignona and municipal agent, Ansoumana Diémé, informs for his part that local authorities tend to be forgotten, while they have before, during and after in any activity. He welcomed the start of this training initiative by Ziguinchor and affirmed that it is important that local authority agents have "the capacity that allows them to be able to represent their institutions everywhere", in this video that we offer you

These training sessions initiated by the Ministry of Civil Service, via the General Directorate of the National Center for Local Civil Service and Training, mark "an important step in the process of completing the establishment of the local civil service in Senegal", according to the Director General of the National Center for Local Civil Service and Training. Alioune Kébé further indicates that these training sessions constitute a flagship activity of the project "Support for territorial governance and territorial dialogue", through its component 3 which aims to further professionalize the agents of local authorities in Senegal, and supported and financially accompanied by the French Embassy.

The Director General of the National Center for Local Civil Service and Training specifies that for this first phase, 308 integrated workers from local authorities are involved. These are: 96 agents to be trained for the corps of local administration attachés, 70 agents to be trained for the corps of local administration clerks and 142 agents to be trained for the corps of local collection agents, for the regions of Ziguinchor, Tambacounda and Thiès. For Ziguinchor, around thirty have been selected, explained Alioune Kébé.