Senelec's managing director Pape Demba Bitèye no longer wants to deal exclusively with the Senegalese smart meter maker. Sparks flew at a steering committee meeting on April 14 between Senelec managing director Pape Demba Bitèye and Amadou Ly, the head of Akilee, which manufactures smart electricity meters for the national electricity company under an exclusive contract. Relations between the two companies have soured in recent weeks over moves by Bitèye to bring in another meter maker less than a year after the contract was signed with Akilee, in which Senelec has a 34% stake. Bitèye was on Senelec's board and gave his approval to the 10-year FCFA 187bn (€286m) deal with Akilee at a board meeting on December 27, 2018, according to minutes that Africa Intelligence has obtained (see here). The deal that then managing director Mouhamadou Makhtar Cissé had strongly pushed for was sealed in February 2019. Just two months later, Cissé was appointed Senegal's energy and oil minister and Bitèye became Senelec's managing director.
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