General Brice Oligui Nguema continued meetings with “the vital forces of the Nation” and the diplomatic corps last Friday at a frantic pace. He warned entrepreneurs accused of corruption.

During a speech, General Brice Oligui Nguema scolded more than 200 Gabonese business leaders the day before, accusing some of having participated in corruption. He threatened legal proceedings against Gabonese business leaders, many of whom he seemed to accuse of having participated, through “overbilling”, sometimes systematic, in corruption at the top of power. He collectively blamed them for a lack of “commitment and patriotism”, and called on them to “challenge themselves” and “stop these manoeuvres” with regard to the widespread practice of “overbilling” in contracts with the State or the public sector