2023-09-05 20:36:18
The fourth power at the heart of the action of the ”General President of the transition”
September 5, 2023
Five days after taking power, General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema was sworn in at the presidential palace in Libreville, in the presence of all the representatives of the living forces of the nation. It was September 4, 2023, a historic day for the Gabonese.
The leader of the Transition and Restoration of Institutions Committee did not go overboard to set the course for his action at the head of the country. Significantly, the Army General places the fourth power at the heart of his action. “He will give it back its letters of nobility“
Never, in the memory of communicators from here or elsewhere, had a speech of swearing in at such a high level of the Republic had begun with ” Ladies and gentlemen of the press“. For many observers, “we see there, the will of the new executive to restore its place to this fourth power relegated to the rank of fifth wheel of the carriage in an environment where political gangrene infects both the executive , the legislative and the judicial.
The fourth power which designates the press and the media, and all the means of communication which can serve as a counter-power against the three named above.
Among the strong signals of this ”Restoration of the Fourth Estate ”, the restoration of the internet and the international media only a few hours after the ousting of Ali Bongo and the unexpected assurances given to the representatives of this fourth power during the consultation hearings at the Presidency of the Republic.
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema as a child ”restore the press to its former glory. ”This could look like blessed bread for the world of communication in Gabon. Ethics and Deontology, Rights and Duties, freedom of the press and/or expression, pluralism of opinions…
The new power announces that it wants, no more ”cut off heads, but open minds ”. Those which guarantee the fundamental right of all to information. The fact remains that, in a media world where there are as many skills as there are sorcerer’s apprentices, everyone must give themselves the measure of this ”restoration”. If indeed the journalist is a science, its practitioners know how to avoid the pitfalls that lead to misleading, partisan, partial and biased information. Otherwise, as Professor Anaclet Dong Ngwa likes to say: “ The Munich Charter must remain the breviary of the good journalist“. It is finally our flight towards bliss.
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