In Gabon, the leader of the coalition of civil servants’ unions, Dynamique unititaire (DU), Jean-Rémy Yama, was released yesterday, Tuesday, September 5, at the end of the morning, on the orders of the president of the transition, General Brice Oligui Nguema. He had been in prison since February 2022, prosecuted for embezzlement and breach of trust, but his comrades had always denounced fallacious reasons intended to silence him.
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With our special correspondent in Libreville, Francois Mazet
Jean-Rémy Yama receives visits from his family and friends in his courtyard. There is joy, and emotion. The leader of Unitary Dynamics continues the interviews. He says to himself ” in shape “, and even ” ten times stronger thanks to the support he received: I will first fight to be rehabilitated in relation to all the injustice that I have known and to make myself available, of course, since today, we can no longer speak of opposition, we can no longer speak of majority. Today, there are men and women who have decided to rebuild their country “.
Liberation “ symbolic »
If he agrees that his release is ” symbolic “, he believes that it goes further than a ” announcement effect “, because, according to him, the transition is a ” reset “: ” We have always defended the same principles, the principles of freedom, the principles of equality, the principles of justice. And these principles do not change. So we will continue to defend them. And that’s what the authorities, the new authorities have also promised the Gabonese “.
Jean-Rémy Yama hopes that the promises of the transition in social matters, in particular on pensions, will be kept. Two other personalities were released on Tuesday, the former mayor of Libreville, Léandre Nzué, and the former director of the National Health Insurance and Social Guarantee Fund (CNAM-GS), Renaud Allogho Akoué.
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