"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

INV AFR -29/11- GABON MARC ONA Société Civile Gabonaise (05:29) English version In an interview broadcasted on French Radio International on Thursday, November 29, 2012, our compatriot Marc Ona Essangui gives us the opportunity, if doubt still remained, to realize that Gabon has good human resources capable of the highest intellectual rigor when it comes to addressing the complex issues of the past, present and future of Gabon. In the space of five minutes that the interview lasts, our compatriot answers all the questions fully and directly, without modulation in light of the reality of “françafrique” relations between the two countries that are France and Gabon and without ignoring the incongruities which cause people to observe that an improvement in the socio-political situation of Gabon today is not only a myth but also and especially an expectation in bad faith. In this interview, we are far from the platitudes of regime s...

English version This Wednesday in Singapore, Olam's Chief Executive Officer, Sunny Verghese, held a press conference during which he admitted that Muddy Waters has had representatives visit not only its Singapore office wearing disguises, but also its offices in Nigeria, Gabon, Ghana and other locations around the world. This revelation is very important for the gabonese public because it indicates that Muddy Waters thinks that Olam's operation in Gabon may also reveal some irregularities. According to Mr. Verghese, these Muddy Waters operatives "take on a different persona and hiding behind some facade or the other,” in order to get access to Olam's offices. This strategy is already paying dividends for Muddy Waters because on Wednesday, Mr. Verghese was forced to publicly admit, just as Muddy Waters had claimed, that indeed in Nigeria, Olam had frozen a $200 million sugar-refinery venture that was announced in December 2010. The problem is that t...

Carson Block of/de Muddy Waters LLC Sunny Verghese, CEO/PDG Olam English version Dear readers, things are no longer rosy in the little kingdom of Olam, that multinational Ali Bongo is presenting to the Gabonese people as the solution to their problems. According to the founder of an American financial research firm, Muddy Waters LCC, Carson Block, the Singaporean farm commodities supplier could collapse due to its heavy debt load and other factors. This initial alarm bell rang about a week ago. Then as Olam's stock plunged, the Singaporean company sued Muddy Waters LCC for libel. This Tuesday, instead of backing down after Olam's law suit, Muddy Waters is even more adamant about the dire situation of Olam, by publishing a new report published by Bloomberg and the Times of London, in which it is repeated that Olam runs a high risk of failure and collapse because of possible accounting “irregularity” and “significant misconduct” over its handling of a st...

English version We already knew Sylvia Bongo's taste for luxury goods as it was revealed some times ago in the French press that she had gone on a little spending spree at Place Vendome in Paris and blown a meager 1 million Euros in about one hour on clothing and jewelry; which she put on her American Express Centurion Card, a card known as a status symbol for millionaire rappers, athletes and all kinds of "nouveaux riches". By the way, to obtain this card one must have a net worth of a minimum of $20 million, pay an entry fee of $7500 plus an annual membership fee of $2500. As American Express advertises, membership has its privilege! When asked about these expenditures by his wife by the journalist Alain Foka of France 24 during an interview in the presidential palace of Libreville, Ali Bongo had nothing better to say than almost bragging that his wife was entitled to purchase what we wanted because neither he nor his wife are only now discoveri...

English version Friends of a Gabonese journalist, Michel Ongoundou Loundah have sent to this blog the following chilling information about threats to the life of this journalist. Following the French version below, the original emails without any editing, demonstrating the shady business Sylvia Bongo is entangled in and which disclosure by the newspaper Le Temps has caused all the thunderous anger of the regime (these emails are in French only). We received the information at the beginning of the week: Michel Ongoundou Loundah is being threatened by the regime due to an article published on the front page of the last edition of the weekly newspaper "Le Temps" (21 / 11/12), about Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation (FSBO). Saturday 24/11, at around 13h, Raphael Ntoutoume Nkoghé, Advisor to the President of the Republic visited the home of the father of Michel Ongoundou to inform him of the threat of death hanging over his son. We thank God that the old man did not have ...

Gerard Ella Nguema English version Before starting to write this post about this blog analysis of Gerard Ella Nguema's recent speech, we spent time reading what was being said by those who were disapproving of what he wrote. The funny things is that the partisans of the Ali Bongo's regime continue to accuse certain members of the opposition such as some members of the party Union Nationale, or even other political parties to have once been members of the PDG party and thus to have participated in the current situation of Gabon. This blog's opinion on that matter is that human beings are subject to evolution and reinvention; that people are shaped through interactions and experiences with other individuals and circumstances. People who have worked with Omar Bongo yesterday may well have evolved to realize that this association was wrong headed and they are absolutely within their rights to change course, reexamine their pathways and decide to rectify the...