From the opening plenary, Saturday 6, to the closing plenary, this Saturday April 27, for the final day of work dedicated to the adoption of the general report of the work, 19 days (exactly 18, minus the public holiday of the end of the Ramadan fast), the commissioners and resource people invited to the Angondjé meetings, therefore believe they have laid the foundations of the restored Gabon. It is therefore the vigil of arms in all the headquarters of the vital forces of the Nation, where we await with a certain frenzy, anxiety and circumspection, the rise of the “white smoke”.
It is the cult of silence and jealously guarded secrecy among those responsible for the sub-committees (12) and commissions (3), where nothing concrete has filtered through from the conclusions and recommendations made during the sometimes heated and conflicting discussions, based on more than 38,000 contributions from Gabonese people here and elsewhere.
Presumably strict instructions were given not to make any overtures to media relays, in order to reserve the scoop for the Metropolitan Archbishop of Libreville, Mgr Jean Patrick Iba-Ba and his colleagues from the DNI office, in the middle of a compilation session sectoral reports this Friday.
A few indiscretions have certainly been gleaned, here and there in the corridors and other mixed zones of the Angondjé stadium, entrusted by a handful of commissioners who often requested anonymity, but they will nevertheless remain in the form of major trends that emerged of the evolution of the debates within the subcommittees. Nothing more.
Unless you have the capacity to replace the omens, very smart who could say with accuracy what the final report of the work of the Inclusive National Dialogue will contain, on the crucial questions and the main centers of interest of the Gabonese populations, before this final plenary this Saturday, April 27. And even ?
Dialectic president of the DNI – president of the transition
Unless the debates of the expected plenary are finally opened to accredited journalists, there is great fear in the event of a closed session between insiders (commissioners and the DNI office, as during restricted plenaries), that the wait will be prolonged and that the president of the assizes in his legendary discretion, does not in turn kick in, to reserve the first of the conclusions of the DNI for the president of the transition.
In this case, it will be necessary to scan the horizon of April 30, the closing date of the Inclusive National Dialogue, the ceremony of which will take place, as at the opening, at the Palais des sports in Libreville.
Apart from this distressing wait, which is understandable, the DNI lived under good auspices, in a good-natured atmosphere and an organization, although imperfect in some respects, like any human work, but irreproachable in its main aspects. outlines.
The hiccup noted by part of the public and which made ‘’tilt’’, the end of a sentence from the spokesperson for the conference. Responding to the question of one of our colleagues during his daily speaking exercises, which were very much appreciated, Mgr Jean Bernard Asséko Mvé, opined that “if the Gabonese decided to grant an additional mandate to the president of the transition, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma, it would only be justice”.
In the cozy salons of the capital, this ”slip of the tongue” has often been compared by many to the situation of a ”referee who chose in the middle of a match, to take off his outfit and his whistle to play in one of the two protagonist teams”.
Elliott to Ana Mervei
2024-04-26 12:57:22
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