OF THE SYSTEM AND MEN, WHO IS GUILTY! DU SYSTÈME ET DES HOMMES, QUI EST COUPABLE!
English version Landry Abaga Essono, president of the National Union of Magistrates of Gabon (SYNAMAG), makes a structural diagnosis that the probity problems presented by Gabonese magistrates would come from the system. However, this blog is of the opinion that it is people who make the machine run. It can be argued that even the most honest people will eventually fail if they are placed in a structurally flawed environment. The magistrate is presented by Mr. Abaga Essono as the worker of an assembly line which is itself structurally defective. But this argument has a huge limit: the system remains a human creation. If it is true that the system is the immediate problem, we must also ask the question of who creates, maintains and finances this system? They are people, aren’t they? An archaic judicial system, underfunded and functioning without digital tools is not a random fatality; it is the result of a deliberate choice, or organized negligence, on the part of those who hold executi...