Published on 01.11.2023 at 3:27 p.m. by Linda Manga
The president of the transitional Senate announced that the rehabilitation work on the Senate will begin in June 2024 and will be carried out by a Chinese company over a period of approximately one year.
At the beginning of June 2024, the rehabilitation project of the Omar Bongo Ondimba Palace, seat of the Senate, located on Boulevard Triomphal, in Libreville, will begin. Indeed, in recent years, the former president of the upper house of Parliament, Dr. Lucie Milebou Mboussou, had continued to question the authorities about the advanced state of disrepair of the building, to the point that the hemicycle has not hosted meetings for several years, because it is considered dangerous.
These various calls having found a favorable response to Beijing, within the framework of the memorandum signed on January 12, 2023, with the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Qin Gang, will make it possible to offer a new face to the Omar Bongo Ondimba Palace by second half of 2025. Learn more on Gabon Review.
To this end, the President of the Senate requested budgetary support from the government to enable it to meet the costs linked to the move and installation of senators in the temporary seat which was made available to them, in order to carry out their missions. in good conditions.
