The rise of xenophobia is highlighted in a press release from the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI), the body of the military in power. The rise of these speeches in the country worried and the military said “stop!” “. A week ago, the popular reflection circle on the transition denounced the hateful and divisive speeches relayed on social networks and sometimes even by the media.
Today, its president Eric Simon Zue welcomes the warning issued by the military in power against the authors of these remarks: “It was really time for the CTRI to react to this scourge of stigmatization, regionalism, and identity withdrawal which is increasingly taking on worrying proportions in our country.”
A hatred that has its roots in the old system
Deputy for the transition, Sosthème Nguema Nguema accuses the power deposed last year of having surfed on hatred between Gabonese: “It must be recognized that this regrettable behavior has its source in the old system which had based its policy on principles retrograde. But I would have liked it to be the public prosecutor who made this outing, because too much importance is given to this phenomenon which does not exist in the minds of the Gabonese. »
In their statement, the authorities asked the judicial police to increase monitoring of the press and social networks and to severely punish the authors of hate speech and xenophobia.
