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Published on 2024-03-15 12:38:37
Two weeks before the Inclusive National Dialogue, Transition Deputy Marcel Libama urges the military in power not to make the mistake of avoiding the “real” issues that concern the Gabonese people, one of the main ones being the responsibility of the PDG party in maintaining the current state of underdevelopment in the country.
In Gabon, where new national meetings are announced for April, Transition Deputy and civil society activist Marcel Libama questions, doubts, and even suspects the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) of wanting to repeat the same mistakes made in previous talks. He fears that the new authorities, perhaps to not offend their “allies” from the Democratic Party of Gabon (PDG), will avoid addressing the issue related to the responsibility of the former ruling party in maintaining the state of underdevelopment in the country for 56 years.
In a statement on Friday, March 15 in Libreville, the trade union leader and former political opponent of the ousted regime on August 30, 2023, assures that “the Gabonese people expect from this dialogue a democratic, economic, social and cultural renewal as the basis for the country’s development”. An aspiration that, according to him, is impossible to materialize if the military do not agree to “permanently remove from participation in the new state’s governance” those responsible for the suffering of the population. Marcel Libama indeed believes that “a large number of dangerous national and foreign gravediggers” still hold Gabon, even after the fall of Ali Bongo, whom he describes as having had a “disastrous and criminal passage in power.”
To ensure the success of future meetings in line with the expectations of the Gabonese people, “it is in the interest of the CTRI and the nation,” he believes, “to have the dialogue ensured by non-state, credible organizations and by emblematic figures of our country in terms of probity and moral integrity.”
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