Libreville, Thursday December 28, 2023 (Infos Gabon) – More than eight years after his death, the former all-powerful Minister of the Interior of Omar Bongo Ondimba and leading Gabonese politician rests in total anonymity in his native village of Médouneu in the province of Woleu-Ntem.
The image caused a stir on the web. During his recent stay in the province of Woleu-Ntem, the President of the Republic, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, placed a wreath on an ordinary grave in Médouneu. Not very different from the multitude of anonymous and vulgarly abandoned graves which litter the ground of this locality in the Haut-Komo department. Difficult to hold back tears when learning that two meters below lies André Mba Obame. However, it is indeed in this place that rests the former Minister of the Interior of Omar Bongo Ondimba and presidential candidate in 2009, who died in April 2015 in Yaoundé following illness at the age of 58 years old.
Touched by this indifference reserved for this personality in the history of Gabon, the Head of State bowed to pay tribute to the memory of the deceased. To honor their son on the arrival of Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, the family had to cover their son’s grave with a coat of paint and mount it with a cross planted on the pediment. André Mba Obame, unlike these other great figures of Gabon, like Omar Bongo Ondimba, Rose Christiane Regombé, Pierre Mamboundou or Mackjoss who were entitled to mausoleums, did not benefit from the same due consideration. to his rank.
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