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Health personnel performing an oral test in Libreville, Gabon.
In Gabon, an audit report on the management of Covid funds mobilized by the State was published on Friday March 25. The audit was carried out by COPIL Citoyen, a movement bringing together several actors including trade unionists and activists from good governance NGOs. This is the first publicly available report on Covid funds. The National Assembly and the government have commissioned reports whose publication is blocked for unknown reasons.
With our correspondent in Libreville, Yves Laurent Goma
COPIL Citoyen says that it carried out its audit exclusively on invoices and payment orders published on the website of the Ministry of the Economy. All these documents justify expenditure worth 56 billion FCFA while during the period, Gabon mobilized 503 billion FCFA to fight once morest Covid-19. On the sums published, the civil society says to have noted overbillings, invoices paid for services not carried out and affirms that names of personalities of the presidency of the Republic are attached to these documents.
Geoffroi Foumboula Lebika, spokesperson for the citizens’ movement, suggests that the companies and people concerned cooperate to enlighten Gabonese: “We ask them to cooperate in the interviews that we will come to carry out with them so that we can understand what authorizations they have received to make such important transactions of more than 20 billion in the name of Gabon. . »
« The government has nothing to hide “Reacted the government spokesperson, Alain Claude Bilié By Nze. ” If blameworthy or reprehensible behavior is noted, the authors will answer for it before the authorities. “, he specified before concluding that the government will not submit to the will of the citizens without democratic legitimacy.
