In Gabon, the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) is in crisis. The public institution can no longer pay its own employees and is struggling to pay pensions for retirees. The latter, who were waiting to collect their pensions on Friday June 10, ended up improvising a movement of mood by occupying the avenue opposite the CNSS. The demonstration was immediately dispersed by the police.
With our correspondent in Libreville, Yves Laurent Goma
Some pensioners were already being paid and the tension escalated when the cashiers announced that there was no longer enough money to pay everyone. Yet some have come from very far away to receive their pension. Like Daniel Biwawou who traveled 40 kilometers:
” We came and got nothing. It hurts me because in my family, things are not going well. It’s not good at all. »
Despair has won over the majority of residents who can no longer wait. ” Me, on Monday, I want to see the administrator who was taken there, I have to see him face to face. We are retired and abused said protesters.
The National Social Security Fund (CNSS) has a payment deficit of 28 billion CFA francs. On Tuesday June 7, the government sacked the entire management and the board of directors. A provisional administrator has been appointed for the next 12 months.
Thursday June 9, Alain Claude Bilie By Nze, the government spokesman assured that all retirees will be paid: “ The State is the guarantor of all this, for our compatriots, who have devoted part of their lives to serving the State, either in the private sector, or in the public apparatus. »
Overstaffing and poor management are, among other things, the source of the CNSS’s serious difficulties.