"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

English version   Albert Ondo-Ossa keeps explaining it to you: CBON's coup d'état was nothing more than a palace revolution. The Bongo Valentins had to be ousted to bring the Bongo Ondimbas back to power. In Gabon, the coup d'état was planned by Pascaline Bongo Ondimba; but the true mastermind was Denis Sassou Nguesso. The strongman of Congo-Brazzaville was determined to get rid of Ali Bongo in order to eventually install his grandson. This is the scenario playing out before us right now. We believe it is entirely fair to observe that recent events formalize a significant return of Omar-Denis Junior Bongo (ODJB) to the Gabonese scene, a repositioning clearly facilitated by the new authorities in power. CBON has already returned assets confiscated by Ali Bongo, such as the Oyo palace at Charbonnages in Libreville, to ODJB, as well as to some of his brothers. The symbolism of this return was initially very strong, as ODJB's official wedding was supposed to be held in Ngou...

 

 

English version   construction site visit, directly orders his Minister of Housing to release billions as early as Monday for a real estate entrepreneur.  This way of doing things perfectly illustrates the deep tensions that exist between political staging and the orthodoxy of public management. In a state governed by the rule of law, a president does not have a personal safe from which he can draw at will to distribute public funds. Even during a presidential injunction on a construction site, the money necessarily comes from financial mechanisms mapped out by the administration, which generally fall into three categories: The Ministry of Housing has an annual investment budget voted for the construction of social housing (such as the Bikélé or Essassa projects). Let us dare to hope that when CBON publicly barks out orders to pay 2 billion to an entrepreneur, it is merely a political acceleration of the disbursement of a sum that was already theoretically allocated to this pr...