From Libreville to Brazzaville, nobody trusts Omar Denis Jr Bongo

摘要

It's an episode 26-year-old Omar Denis JrBongo ("ODJB") could have well donewithout. In mid-December, the son of lateGabonese former president Omar BongoOndimba and Edith-Lucie Bongo(Congolese President Denis SassouNguesso's daughter, also deceased) had justreturned to Oyo after visiting Franceville inGabon's Haut-Ogooue region. Employees ofthe state-owned Congo Telecom had it infor him and threatened to go on strikebecause telecommunications minister LeonJuste Ibombo had awarded a plum contractto run the fibre-optic cable betweenBrazzaville and Pointe-Noire to SiliconeConnect, a small company in the ODJBownedYao Corp group (Africa Intelligence,15/12/20).