The first edition of the National Liberation Day will be celebrated over forty-eight (48) hours, this Thursday, August 29 and Friday, August 30, 2024, according to the official program made public by the State Protocol Services of the Presidency of the Republic. On the program, inauguration of infrastructures, buildings and monuments on the first day; then military and civil parade, as well as various festive events on the second day, that is to say August 30, declared a public holiday, non-working and paid throughout the national territory.
The official program indicates that the commemorative festivities of the “Liberation Blow” open at midday on Thursday, August 29, with the inauguration of the brand new national airline Fly Gabon, at Libreville Air Base 01, followed immediately by the inauguration of the liberation stele on the site of the Botanical Garden, at the entrance to the Camp de Gaule.
On the afternoon of the same Thursday, August 30, the inauguration of the airport bypass road is planned; the delivery of the first vehicles of the program “a young man – a taxi” ; the allocation of 509 developed plots in Igoumié; the christening of a maritime transport ferry at the port of Owendo and the organization of various activities by female personnel of the Defense and Security Forces in the evening.
Friday, August 30, D-Day, will be devoted to the grand military and civil parade, the subject of full-scale rehearsal exercises on Tuesday and Wednesday on the axis ”Nkembo roundabout – Carrefour Léon Mba – Esplanade of the Hassan 2 mosque”. This will be followed by a gala football match in the middle of the afternoon, which will pit the CTRI team against that of parliamentarians and members of the transitional government, at the Sino-Gabonese friendship stadium in Akanda.
A banquet will be offered to personalities in the evening with performances by artists, at the Palace of the Presidency of the Republic, in front of which a popular concert and fireworks will be held.
In a previous communication, the presidency of the republic had specified that this event, which concerns all nine (9) provinces of the country, was certainly celebrated in Libreville in its first edition, but will be held on a rotating basis in the years to come.
National Liberation Day was established on August 30 of each year by a draft decree issued at the end of the Council of Ministers, at its meeting of January 22, 2024. It commemorates the effective seizure of power by the Defense and Security Forces, costing Ali Bongo Ondimba the presidency and putting an end to 55 years of rule by the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG).
It was also created a “National Order of Liberation”whose transitional president, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma, was elevated to the dignity of ”Grand Master”. Its aim is to “reward the individuals or civilian and military communities who distinguished themselves in the action of the coup to liberate Gabon on August 30, 2023 and in the progress of the transition ».
Feodora Madiba
2024-08-27 20:04:18
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