Three Gabonese groups give 15 days to unlock 1,500 posts
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on GabonActu
Three organisations defending unemployed graduates are calling on the Gabonese government to release 1,500 budgeted posts, divided between the ministries of National Education and Health. On 13 November in Libreville, they set a 15-day deadline and called for a single administrative window, GabonActu reports.
Three Gabonese organisations defending unemployed young graduates gave the authorities a 15-day deadline on Friday 13 November in Libreville to release 1,500 budgeted posts in the National Education and Health sectors. The Mouvement national des visionnaires du Gabon (MNVG), the Mouvement national des chômeurs du Gabon et affiliés and the NGO Un jeune un emploi made the demand during a press statement at ABC Mall in the Charbonnages district, GabonActu reports.
The posts concerned correspond to 750 recruitments for each of the two ministries. Gabonese President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema announced this commitment on 8 August 2024. The three organisations say that the sectoral administrations and the Civil Service administration have still not implemented the instruction, more than two years after its announcement.
To speed up the processing of applications, the groups are asking the vice-president of the government to create a single window bringing together the Civil Service, Budget, National Education and Health administrations. They want this mechanism to allow applications to be examined and beneficiaries to be progressively integrated. They denounce a difference in treatment compared with the 500 posts allocated to the Ministry of Communication and the 1,000 intended for faith-based institutions, which they say were filled in 2024. The organisations invoke Article 23 of the Gabonese Constitution, concerning the right to work and fair remuneration.
In National Education, they are calling for the publication of the final lists resulting from work carried out in a committee with the administration. They are also asking for the integration of beneficiaries recognised on the blue forms, consideration for 20 people with presidential recommendations and the signing of blue forms for 455 applications still pending. For Health, they are demanding a transparent examination of applications in accordance with correspondence from the presidency’s secretariat-general, referenced 001296/PR/SG/DJEFP, as well as the signing of blue forms for 744 applications. They are also calling on the Budget Minister to organise the progressive placement of beneficiaries on the payroll based on lists submitted by the administrations concerned.
