Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Alix-Ida Mussavu
Published on 2024-02-18 19:55:57
Free since September 5, 2023 after being subjected to house arrest under the regime of the deposed president, Guy Nzouba Ndama, during the political return of his party, scorned a justice under orders and a sadistic regime that wanted his life. The case being in cassation, he remains silent for the time being on what earned him the assignment of 11 months and 26 days. From the depths of his being, he thanks his supporters and Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema.
11 months and 26 days. This is the time that the president of the party Les Démocrates (LD) will have spent under the judicial regime of house arrest. During the political return of his party on February 17, Guy Nzouba Ndama chose to remain silent on the case that led to this sanction imposed by the deposed regime because he was constrained to do so, the case remaining pending and justice following its course due to the appeal in cassation made. “Now counting on an independent justice, I am more optimistic about the prospect of a fair trial, based solely on the reading of the law and no longer on the concern to please or the duty to implement the wishes formerly issued by the high places of the deposed power,” he commented.
Becoming an opponent during the second term of the deposed president, this former baron of power said he had suffered the torments of harassment and an excess of zeal from “the justice under order.” “I almost became convinced that the power in place at the time not only had the will to block the path of a political opponent it feared,” explained the president of LD, based on the repeated humiliations and deliberately sustained deafness in the face of his well-founded defense arguments. “I had the feeling of being in the presence of a real deadly project that the sadism of the deposed power had put into execution to annihilate my person forever,” he confessed.
Survivor of a “deadly project”
Nzouba Ndama thanks his supporters despite the abandonment of some like Séraphin Davain-Akure. “It is largely thanks to you that I was able to hold on and preserve my nerves from possible strokes, in the strongest moments of harassment and humiliation suffered,” he told them expressing his gratitude. “My thanks come from the depths of my being,” he insisted, recognizing that they had allowed him to maintain faith in political commitment and the extreme kindness of human beings, especially since his tormentors of yesterday are now facing their own turpitudes.
“Thanks to the new context created by the arrival of the CTRI, the judge of the first chamber was forced to sign an order confirming the lifting of the house arrest to which I was subjected,” said the man who has been free since September 5, 2023. He rightly expresses his gratitude to the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) and above all, to President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema. “At the risk of undermining his great modesty, I would like to say to the President of the Transition that in addition to the lifting of my house arrest made possible by the advent of the CTRI, there is above all in my thanks, the recognition of eternal Gabon,” he said, evoking the coup d’état of August 30, 2023.
“The enchanting scent of regained freedom”
For him, this was a highly patriotic act that allowed Gabon to rid itself of a moribund power, which plunged the Gabonese into misery, indignity and dishonor in the eyes of the world. A power, he continued, perverted, exercised by a band of financial predators combined with a familiar circle devoid of any constitutional legality, against a background of erratic mood and insipid amateurism of successive governments in the management of public affairs. “The CTRI has restored pride, dignity, and love of being together as the Gabonese Nation,” said Nzouba Ndama, whose party believes in the “idea of justice as equality for all before the law.”
“The enchanting scent of freedom regained in the country has no equivalent to the weight of oppression in which we lived,” he declared. “The Kilimanjaro of devotion that the Gabonese people show to the President of the Transition has no equivalent to the degree of despair in which this people were plunged in the idea of one day escaping the diabolical reign that was consuming them slowly,” said Guy Nzouba Ndama whose party, five months after the support motion expressed by the interim president, Philippe Nzengue Mayila, reiterates its support for the CTRI and Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema.
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