Officials and recipients of the vouchers, posing at the end of the ceremony.
Libreville, September 3, 2024 (AGP) – This Tuesday, September 3, 100 public media professionals received their very first cash vouchers and certificates of integration into the Civil Service, noted an AGP journalist. This first batch is part of the 500 budgetary positions promised to the sector by the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) last December.
The initiative, which is part of the improvement of living conditions for men and women in the media, took place at the Maison Georges-Rawiri, headquarters of public television and radio, located on Triomphal Boulevard in Libreville.
«Ladies and gentlemen, we have now reached the end of this regularization and recruitment process which, I agree, was becoming unbearable for many of you. Because when you have already covered 10 kilometers, the eleventh, the last, becomes the longest.“, agreed the Minister of Communication and Media, Laurence Ndong. According to the member of the Transitional government, the 500 budgetary positions granted to Communication personnel reflect the desire of the new authorities to restore the dignity and honor of media men, in line with the overall restoration of the country and its institutions.
«Before August 30, 2023, the world of communication had not obtained any small progress without months of strike. So much so that even the simple small negotiation was difficult. But all the latest progress made was thanks to the will of the President of the Transition, Head of State, General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma, on presentation of the situation by the sectoral minister that I am“, said Laurence Ndong.
And to recall that a total of 311 cases have already been processed.(…) Some will receive their vouchers in the next few days, while others will have to wait another month or two.” she said.
Speaking in turn, the Minister of Civil Service, Louis Boukandou Moussavou, took this opportunity to respond to the criticism often addressed to his ministerial department. She reminded the audience that she is only one of the links in the chain in the processing of integration files into the Civil Service.
For his part, the Minister of Public Accounts, Charles Mba, congratulated the lucky beneficiaries of the cash vouchers, while recalling that this recruitment of Communication agents comes following 6,000 allocations of budgetary positions in the sectors of National Education, Health and Security.
For her part, the representative of the new civil servants, Iden Ampouma, expressed general satisfaction, saying that after many years of waiting, they were already suffering from a sense of despair. Fortunately for them, “There was August 30, 2023 which symbolizes the return of hope».
In addition to press release 033 announcing the allocation of 500 budgetary positions for the benefit of media professionals, the CTRI also significantly increased the press subsidy, increasing it from 120 to 500 million FCFA per year.
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