Published on : 20/09/2022 – 15:30
In Gabon, opponent Guy Nzouba-Ndama is still in police custody. The former president of the National Assembly was arrested on Saturday at the border, returning from Congo-Brazzaville. More than a billion CFA francs in cash were found in his suitcases. He was stopped. The deputy prosecutor said he was suspected of improper possession of funds. But new charges are now being brought once morest him.
Guy Nzouba-Ndama was heard until late Monday, September 19 by the Franceville prosecutor. And here he is now accused irregular holding of funds, but also money laundering and intelligence with a foreign power. The file is being transferred to Libreville. Guy Nzouba-Ndama was himself on the plane at midday, under escort, heading for the capital.
One of his lawyers complains of “ numerous procedural flaws of implacable rudeness “. Me Martial Loundou Dibangoyi explains that the Franceville court had released Guy Nzouba-Ndama on bail with a flagrance hearing scheduled for October or November in Franceville. But a special court in Libreville decided to put him back in police custody and transfer him to the capital.
Opposition continues to protest arrest
Nevertheless, Me Lubin Ntountoume, another of his defenders, describes a Guy Nzouba Ndama “ serene ». « He saw a doctor. He is doing well. For the latter, the essential thing is that we guarantee his rights, in particular the presumption of innocence. “ He is a political figure. It presents guarantees of representation. All this militates for him to find his family while waiting for the investigation to continue », indicated Me Lubin Ntountoum.
The affair continues in any case to agitate the political sphere. The Rassemblement pour la patrie et la modernité denounced the broadcast of a video of the arrest of Guy Nzouba Ndama, ” thrown into the pasture “, according to the opposition party, which criticizes the ” autocratic excesses of a power that does not know how to preserve human dignity ».
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