"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

      English version   From 1958 to 1967, the Gabonese political lines were quite clear and straightforward. The supporters of Leon Mba were known, and so were those of Jean Hilaire Aubame. These lines of demarcation were constant, and the population knew who was who.   After 1967, Omar Bongo created the phenomenon of political transhumance by demanding that everyone join his one-party system Only the politicians of the PDG had a future in the Gabonese administration. If you were an opponent, you had a choice between death and exile. Many opponents entered the PDG's manger.   Since 1990, the main attributes of Gabonese politicians are certainly the versatility and inconstancy which considerably weaken the opposition as its most important members regularly abandon their camp or their original political party to rally the power. The most striking cases are those of Paul Mba-Abessole, and Pierre-André Kombila, who ended up joining Omar Bongo...

      English version   60 years after the country's independence, 200,000 barrels of oil pumped per day for over 40 years, uranium and manganese to Eramet ,etc., etc. ; but the spectacle presented by the country is a field of ruins. Retirees are demonstrating to claim the payment of their pensions; there are strikes in all administrations. Many private companies are closing.   The only solution that the Bongo regime has found to put on the table is that of holding another political dialogue, certainly to result in distribution of government positions. There is nothing good brewing for an impoverished people tired of this kind of comedy. If dialogues were the solution in Gabon, it would be known because there have been many dialogues in Gabon, but the situation of the Gabonese people has never improved.   Inviting some people to a feast table does not solve any fundamental problem for the population. On the contrary, it accentuates tendenc...

 

      English version   The trial of Brice Laccruche-Alihanga, who was recently Ali Bongo's Chief of Staff, further proves that Gabon is a huge vaudeville.   What is a vaudeville? It’s simply a comedy, a farce, an opera comedy. We consider Gabon to be a huge comedy today.   Already accused of gigantic embezzlement, here is Brice Laccruche-Alihanga now also accused of forgery and use of forgery. He is in fact accused of having had a false Gabonese birth certificate drawn up.   Dear readers, if we understand correctly, Brice Laccruche-Alihanga succeeded with his false Gabonese birth certificate, in going to school in Gabon, in joining BGFI Bank, in becoming its Director, and finally in becoming the Gabonese President’s Chief of Staff. All this with false papers.   But, dear readers, this state of affairs becomes less astonishing when one realizes that Ali Bongo was able to rise to the Presidency of the Republic by using a f...

      English version   Dear readers, in Africa in general and unfortunately in Gabon in particular, people seem to confuse being educated and being intelligent. Someone who is educated is a person who has acquired knowledge in formal learning environments, such as school over the years; while an intelligent person is somebody who has the ability to analyze, dissect, parse, learn, acquire, assimilate, and effectively use information, facts and data, as well as knowledge. Intelligence is therefore an internal force that governs people capacities or limitations in acquiring skills in different areas. Intelligence is within you, while education is provided to you externally by parents, teachers, books etc.   So dear readers, are you intelligent? Below are some traits that experts think are characteristic of very smart people.   1.        People who are highly intelligent often are not blind followers. They don’t ...

 

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      English version   Pierre Castel is the founder of Sobraga. He began his career in Gabon in 1965. Today, according to the specialist magazine Forbes, his fortune stands at 16 billion dollars, or more than 8 trillion CFA francs. It is the 8th fortune of France.       Version française   Pierre Castel est le fondateur de la Sobraga. Il a commencé sa carrière au Gabon en 1965. Aujourd’hui, d’après le magazine spécialisé Forbes, sa fortune s’élève à 16 milliards de dollars, soit plus de 8000 milliards de francs CFA. C’est la 8ième fortune de France.

 

  English version   In this sordid case, why did the Gabonese authorities not naturalize this player by providing him with documents in good standing? Why always want the easy way out? Why always want to live with unorthodox methods?       Version française   Dans cette sordide affaire, pourquoi les autorités Gabonaises n’ont pas naturalisé ce joueur en lui procurant de bons documents ne souffrant d’aucune contestation ? Pourquoi vouloir toujours la facilité ? Pourquoi vouloir toujours s’accommoder de méthodes inorthodoxes ?

 

 

 

        English version   Many readers have asked us how come someone like Faustin Boukoubi, who is the President of the National Assembly, does something as silly as to go count large sums of money that himself and people from his province of origin have contributed to the Bongo family funerals, publicly as to tell to the people: look at me, I have money and I am so close to the Bongos that I can donate a lot of money to show my solidarity. He could have given that money privately; but he wanted everyone to know. Why? Because he is not that smart; because he thinks that showing all that money makes him important.   Dear readers, there is a vast difference between an educated person and an intelligent one. Observe society carefully and you will notice that smart people tend to understand that being flashy and ostentatious don’t mean anything. People who work for they money and are able to accumulate a lot of it honestly, rarely adorn the...

 

    English version   During his so-called "Bitam" statement, René Ndemezo’Obiang told the audience that he went back to Ali Bongo’s team, because: « Égne abele biom mö !»   What does this sentence mean?   Égne (Fang) = it’s him ( English ) Abele (Fang) = who has (English) Biom (Fang) = things (English) Mö (Fang) = in hands (English)   So the sentence pronounced by René Ndemezo’Obiang to justify his return to the good graces of Ali Bongo can be translated as: "it is he who has things in hand".         Version française   Lors de sa déclaration dites « de Bitam », René Ndemezo’Obiang a expliqué à l’assistance qu’il est retourne chez Ali Bongo, parce que : « Égne abele biom mö !»   Que veut dire cette phrase ?   Égne (Fang) = c’est lui (Français) Abele (Fang) = qui a (Français) Biom (Fang) = les choses (Français) Mö (Fang) = en main (Fra...

      English version   René Ndemezo’Obiang is anything but crazy. He hasn't lost his mind. He is a man who is blessed with an above average intelligence and therefore, when he makes such a risky statement as the one he recently made in Bitam, this has to be done on purpose, with a specific goal. This blog looked at the cold and calculated motivations of René Ndemezo’Obiang.   In 2016, René Ndemezo’Obiang had been an excellent campaign manager for Jean Ping. All observers agree that he did a very good job for which he received hundreds of millions of CFA francs from Jean Ping. René Ndemezo’Obiang managed the campaign budget. The results speak for him: Jean Ping officially won 7 out of 9 provinces. It was an electoral landslide unprecedented in the history of Gabon. Ali Bongo had been demolished.   If Jean Ping had been declared the winner as the results demonstrated, René Ndemezo’Obiang would have been either Prime Minister or Chief of...