Libreville, Friday September 8, 2023 (Gabon news) – Step by step and in all wisdom, the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) lays the groundwork and lifts a corner of the veil on the actors who will accompany it in the re-foundation of a new Gabon focused on its growth and happiness. However, be vigilant of certain extremist speeches tending to distort the re-founding speech of the head of the transitional state.
In Gabon, the days pass and things accelerate at a pace consistent with people’s expectations. As was announced during the swearing-in and in compliance with the new political situation, measures aimed at revealing the profiles of new actors in institutions, political relaxation and the relaunch of public administration are gradually taking place.
This is how we learned in turn, through various press releases, of some attack nominations. We thus note the arrival of Dieudonné Aba’a Owono as president of the Constitutional Court, replacing Marie Madeleine Mboratsouo.
On the basis of press release n°5 of the CTRI, the former head of state Ali Bongo Ondimba was declared free of all his movements for health reasons.
As for Raymond Ndong Sima, he takes the torch and becomes the successor of Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze as transitional Prime Minister.
Professor Guy Rossatanga-Rignault becomes Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic.
At this stage, all these measures are welcomed with jubilation, like what prevailed during the takeover of power by the army on August 30.
However ! If at the highest level of the State, the transitional authorities act with wisdom, method and foresight in respecting the commitments and assurances given, the same cannot be said in relation to certain echoes coming from working-class neighborhoods.
Where, according to numerous testimonies, certain private actors, particularly in commercial spaces, want to confuse speed and haste in the implementation of the Head of State’s announcements.
On the one hand, everyone in these spaces interprets or appropriates the measures announced by the Transition Committee in their own way if we do not replace the municipal authority by usurpation on the other hand.
This is particularly the case of the scene close to a political recovery which almost went wrong as recently as last Wednesday September 6 in a district of Libreville.
The author and initiator of this verbal slippage does not bother with words in the form of thinly veiled popular vindictiveness.
Excerpts: “Here we are at the Nzeng-Ayong market. Today is September 6, 2023. Compared to what was said by the new President of the Republic, the nationals have 80% at all levels in all sectors in this country.
Before adding: “For almost three (03) days I have asked Nigerians to remove their table from there because I want to rank all the nationals here outside for their give the most prominent places; but he resists by calling his lawyer or his relations; tomorrow or Friday at the latest we will take care of his case; if we have to use force, we will use force.”
In front of an excited and unflinching crowd, the occasional crowd speaker hit the nail on the head. “From now on, the town hall is an institution which was also destroyed by the President of the Republic; and we ourselves, the nationals, take possession of the municipal domain; I myself am going to place nationals all the way here.”
If we look closely at the spirit and the letter, this antipodean interpretation in no way reflects the substance of the speech delivered by the transitional president on the day of his swearing-in.
In its roadmap, the line of the Transition and Institutional Restoration Committee is unequivocal. The Gabon that the CTRI intends to build aims both to safeguard the interests of nationals as well as those of all foreign communities who have chosen Gabon as their second homeland and live in compliance with the law.
Without doubt, appropriate, targeted and constant communication is more than necessary so as not to see the message of President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and the entire Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions be misused by third parties.
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