"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

English version After granting the French company Veolia 20 years of monopoly through the privatization of the Societe d'Energie et d'Eau du Gabon, Gabon terminated this contract in 2018 and asked Veolia to leave the country. But curiously, this same Gabonese government which accused Veolia of incompetence in the management of water and electricity in Gabon, has just hired Henri Proglio, the ex-CEO of Veolia, as a consultant for the management of SEEG. Go figure! According to Africa Intelligence, it was Nourredin Bongo who retained the services of Henri Proglio. The latter would now have all the country's economic sectors in hand. Version française Après avoir accordé à la société française Veolia, vingt ans de monopole via la privatisation de la Societe d’Energie et d’Eau du Gabon, le Gabon résilia ce contrat en 2018 et demanda à Veolia de quitter le Pays. Mais curieusement, ce même gouvernement gabonais qui accusa Veolia d’inc...

English version A 15-year-old Gabonese minor encouraged his 7-year-old younger brother to beat up his other 3-year-old brother; all this while filming the scene he then put on social media. If this heinous act must be condemned by all, we must also all disapprove of the incarceration of the young man by the Gabonese authorities, in Gros-Bouquet prison; an adult prison. The Gabonese law is however clear in its article 57: “When a minor between the ages of thirteen and eighteen has committed a crime or an offense, they will, in all cases, be referred to the investigating judge who will also inquire about the conditions of existence and education of the child. If he does not place them under a warrant, the examining magistrate may, by special order, entrust the minor to any person or institution of his choice, who will retain custody of them until the court decides. " Before deciding to incarcerate this 15-year-old child in Gros-Bouquet, did the examini...

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English version In "Education and Sociology" published in 1922, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim defined the missions of education as being of two types: 1. Education is the action exercised by the adult generations on those who are not yet ripe for social life. Its purpose is to elicit and develop in children a certain number of physical, intellectual and moral states expected of them by political society as a whole, and by the special environment for which they are particularly intended. 2. What makes the authority with which the word of the priest is so easily colored is the high idea that he has of his mission; that he speaks in the name of a god whom he believes, to whom he feels closer than the crowd of laymen. The school teacher can and should have something of this feeling. For Birkheim, if education must train the individual physically, morally and intellectually; the end must be the conformation of the individual to the expectations of s...

English version Since 1967, if there is one thing that has been successfully done by the Bongo regime, it is to have been tirelessly the ruthless destroyer of excellence, of defiant and free intellectuals, of non-corruptible technocrats, and ultimately of merit in all its forms. When you destroy excellence, you inevitably strengthen the influence and rooting of dictatorship. The result is that today in Gabon, many no longer even question the omnipresence of imposture at all levels: - Who is still wondering about Mborantsuo's imposture at the Constitutional Court? - Who is still wondering about the imposture of Mborantsuo's son at the budget ministry, without any competency in that field? - Who is wondering about the presence of murky executives of the BGFI in the Gabonese financial departments, while these executives do not always have a glorious banking past? - Who wonders about the presence of the Osseni sons in the upper echelons of the preside...