Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Gabon actu
Published on 2024-04-08 13:48:28
The works of the inclusive national dialogue effectively started on Monday, April 8 at the Sino-Gabonese Cooperation Stadium in Angondje. A slow first day, divided between the distribution of accreditations and the sharing of useful information within the commissions and sub-commissions. Inside and outside the stadium, complaints and grievances are still coming from all sides.
The work started very timidly in the different commissions and sub-commissions where many delegates were still trying to understand the terms of reference, in order to understand the various subjects they had to work on.
Everywhere, the working conditions are not to the delegates’ liking, such as in one of the sub-commissions on social governance where the commissioners complain about taking notes on their laps. Next door, in the agriculture and environment sub-commission, the training and discussions of the day seem to be of little interest and not up to the objectives, according to a delegate speaking anonymously.
Many other delegates met still ruminate their frustration for being assigned, without their consent, to commissions and sub-commissions whose purpose seems not in line with their interests and the contributions they wanted to make to the construction of the Gabon of tomorrow.
The assurances and explanations given for this purpose by the organizers, notably the Minister of Institutional Restoration, Murielle Minkoué Mezui, and the dialogue’s president, Mgr Jean Patrick Iba-Ba, seem unlikely to have appeased tensions.
Improvements in terms of working conditions are also desired in the two (2) rooms dedicated to journalists and information professionals.
Recurrent tensions also outside where a group of youth and unemployed associations leaders, through the voice of the president of the Youth Unemployment NGO, Erwan Bayackaboma, raised their voice to cry out against the exclusion they claim to have suffered for not being invited to the dialogue.
Elliott Ana Merveille
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