In
Gabon King
Mohammed VI of
Morocco
Vacations in
Mansion Like
UN Guterres on
57 St and
Lisbon
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post
UN GATE, Dec 7 –
When
the
International
Monetary Fund
issued a
statement
about Gabon on
19 December 2018
it was to
disbursed $99
million, what some saw
as an unmerited
holiday present
for Ali Bongo.
And now the
King of Morocco,
Mohammed
VI, has
dissed even
his own country's
lobbying in
order to vacation for
the second
time in three
months at
"his" Pointe-Denis,
Gabon mansion.
Sounds like
Fat Tony
Guterres of
the UN.
Now
after Inner
City Press
asked about
Gabon as one
of dozens of
other
questions that
the UN left
unanswered, despite
the promise
of UNSG
Antonio
Guterres' UN
to UNSR David Kaye,
and of Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric,
Ali
Bongo is
preparing the
next generation,
with Guterres'
collusion:
The eldest son
of Gabonese
president Ali
Bongo Ondimba,
Noureddin
Bongo
Valentin, has
been handed a
political
appointment at
the presidency
according to
reports.
He was
appointed
“coordinator
of
presidential
affairs” on
Thursday with
the main
mandate “to
assist the
President of
the Republic
in the conduct
of all affairs
of the
State.”
The official
announcement
was made by
the spokesman
of the
government,
Edgard Anicet
Mboumbou
Miyakou, at
the end of a
cabinet
meeting.
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invented by
Teads The
position of
general
coordinator of
presidential
affairs, which
Noureddin
Bongo, now
holds was
specially
created at the
end of the
cabinet
meeting.
Its mission
according to
the government
is to: “assist
the President
of the
Republic in
the conduct of
all affairs of
the State and
ensures the
strict
application of
decisions.”
Noureddin
Bongo will
therefore be a
right hand man
to his father
Ali Bongo, who
came to power
in 2009 after
his father,
Omar Bongo,
who led the
country for 42
years. Malika
Bongo Ondimba
Dossou, the
eldest
daughter of
Ali Bongo
wrote in a
Facebook post
that she had
presidential
ambitions.
“I am mayor
for two years
now and I do
not want to
stop because I
have huge
ambitions for
Gabon. Why not
a woman
President of
the Republic
of Gabon in
2022?’‘ she
asked
rhetorically.
Malika,
already into
local politics
was at the
time mayor of
the town of
Akanda.
Political
opponents have
routinely
accused the
Bongo family
of wanting to
turn the
presidency
into an
‘inheritance.’
Malika was
educated in
the United
States, and
also in
France, where
she studied
international
relations at
the University
of Sorbonne in
Paris. She has
worked with
UNESCO and the
UN in Geneva
before
returning to
Gabon in 2009.
She is married
to Steve
Dossou.
Will it
work? From
Guterres'
actions on
Cameroon, it is
known which
side he's on: the
dictators.
On January
7 Inner
City Press
asked, at 9
am: "January
7-1: On Gabon,
what is the
SG's comment
and action on
that "elements
of the
Republican
Guard took
control of the
state-owned
Radio Gabon. A
message was
then broadcast
around 6:30
local time on
the airwaves,
announcing
that a
"National
Council of
Restoration"
was set up in
the absence of
President Ali
Bongo Ondimba,
in order "to
save
democracy,
preserve the
integrity of
the national
territory and
national
cohesion'"?
And at back
then at 2:39
pm lead
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric's
deputy Farhan
Haq replied to
Inner City
Press,
"Regarding
your first
question: As a
principle, the
Secretary-General
has always
stood against
unconstitutional
changes of
power,
especially by
force, and in
that light, he
condemns the
attempted coup
that took
place this
morning in
Gabon.
The
Secretary-General
takes note
that calm
appears to
have returned
in Libreville
and calls on
all actors to
adhere to
constitutional
means.
The Special
Representative
of the
Secretary-General
and Head of
the United
Nations
Regional
Office for
Central Africa
(UNOCA),
François
Louncény Fall,
based in
Libreville, is
monitoring
events closely
and stands
ready to
provide his
good offices
if and as
required."
Inner
City Press
published the
full answer -
but since
then, going
even further
into
corruption, Dujarric and
Haq and
Guterres and
Melissa
Fleming won't
answer any
Inner City
Press
question. This is
corrupt.
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