“The CSCCA firmly reaffirms that it is not in any way authorized to exceed its constitutional and legal powers nor to substitute itself for Parliament to grant discharge of management to former Prime Ministers and Ministers. Such attribution falls under the exclusive competence of the Legislative Power, with the sole exception of cases where these former high officials have been declared de facto accountants of public funds during the exercise of their functions. In this strict hypothesis, they become subject to the Court, which is then solely competent to judge their accounts, in accordance with the legal and regulatory provisions in force,” wrote its president Rogavil Boiguéné in a notice to former Prime Ministers and former Ministers on November 12, 2026.

In its reasoning, the notice signed by the president of the CSCCA stated “that, by virtue of the principle of the separation of powers and administrative legality, it cannot in any case attribute to itself or appropriate prerogatives or competences that are not expressly delegated to it by the Constitution and the laws of the Republic.”