"We will try to reduce the cost of living of the State and to get closer to the population without making the State suffer, so sponsorships ... I don't know what they are called ... we will try to reduce this as much as possible so that the ministers can devote themselves to their work. We are not saying not to go to the field, the ministers will go to the field but on essential issues and issues that concern their departments."
Lassina Zerbo

January 1, 1970