Alain Mouangouadi and Thierry Nkoulou in the center from left to right © DR
The Vice-President of Dynamique unitaire (DU), responsible for unionization and General Delegate of the National Convention of Unions in the Education System (CONASYSED), Alain Mouangouadi and the advisor to the president of Dynamique unitaire, Thierry Nkoulou doors disappeareds since late Friday followingnoon, reappeared this Sunday mid-morning, Gabonactu.com learned
“They freed us,” said a smiling Alain Mouangouadi when contacted by a Gabonactu.com reporter on the phone without knowing the identity of the people who kidnapped and kidnapped them.
Alain Mouangouadi claims to have been quickly hooded as soon as he was kidnapped. He was taken to a private residence where he was not physically harmed. His jailers accused him of being once morest the president of the Transition Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma and of preventing him from working.
« They said they work because of him so they don’t tolerate his actions being sabotaged“, recounted Mouangouadi speaking of his jailers.
« I wanted to eat fruit and they brought it to me“, he admitted, emphasizing that he did not know exactly where he was and where his colleague Thierry Nkoulou was.
« After cross-checking the testimonies, it seems that we were in the same place but in different rooms“, said Mouangouadi who claimed to have spent his night in an air-conditioned room.
Trade unionists took part in an audience granted to Dynamique unitaire by the Minister of the Civil Service in the middle of the day on Friday.
As soon as the meeting ended, Alain Mouangouadi hurried home in a Rav4 vehicle lent to a colleague. At 6:15 p.m., he called his colleague to return his vehicle. It was his last proof of life.
The trade unionist’s telephones remained open until Saturday morning without anyone answering the numerous calls from his comrades and his wife.
Dynamique Unitaire quickly sounded the alarm and decided on Saturday during a general assembly to organize a sit-in in front of the Ministry of National Education until the release of its comrades.
Alain Mouangouadi and Thierry Nkoulou organized the general meeting finally held on Saturday without them. The teachers met during this Assembly to demand the payment of their salary reminders and the regularization of their administrative situations: advancements, reclassifications and recruitment for pre-salary teachers.
Carl Nsitou
2024-03-03 10:58:40
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