Abasirikare bakuru bagaragaye kuri televiziyo y’igihugu muri Gabon bavuga ko bafashe ubutegetsi. Bavuze ko bahinduye impfabusa ibyavuye mu matora yabaye ku wa gatandatu, aho Perezida Ali Bongo Ondimba yatangajwe ko ari we wayatsinze. Abo basirikare banavuze ko bahagarariye inzego zose z’umutekano n’igisirikare muri Gabon. Bavuze ko ari abo mu kanama k’inzibacyuho no gusubizaho inzego, cyangwa ‘Comité de Transition et de Restauration des Institutions’.
Akanama k’amatora ka Gabon kavuze ko Bongo yatsinze amatora n’amajwi 64.27%, mu gihe ukomeye mu bo bari bahatanye, Albert Ondo Ossa, kavuze ko yabonye amajwi 30.77%, muri ayo matora yateje impaka, yaranzwe no gutinda gutangaza ibyayavuyemo.
Abo basirikare batangaje ko bafashe ubutegetsi mu gitondo cyo kuri uyu wa gatatu, nyuma gato yuko akanama k’amatora gatangaje ko Perezida Bongo yatsindiye manda ya gatatu. Gabon ni kimwe mu bihugu byo muri Afurika bicukurwamo ibitoro byinshi, mu gihe hafi 90% by’ubuso bwayo buriho amashyamba.
Guhirikwa kwe kwaba gusoje imyaka 53 umuryango wa Bongo umaze ku butegetsi muri Gabon, yahoze ikolonizwa n’Ubufaransa. Mu gihe byaba byemejwe, iri ryaba ribaye ihirikwa ry’ubutegetsi rya munani mu myaka itatu ishize mu bihugu byahoze bikolonizwa n’Ubufaransa muri Afurika.
Ariko byinshi muri ibyo bihugu bindi biri mu majyaruguru ya kure ya Gabon, mu karere ka Sahel, aho ibikorwa by’intagondwa ziyitirira Islam byatumye habaho kwiyongera kw’abinubira ko ubutegetsi bwatowe muri demokarasi bwari burimo kunanirwa kurinda abaturage b’abasivile.
Minisitiri w’intebe w’Ubufaransa Élisabeth Borne yavuze ko igihugu cye kirimo gukurikiranira hafi ibibera muri Gabon.
Josep Borrell, umukuru w’ububanyi n’amahanga mu muryango w’Ubumwe bw’Uburayi (EU/UE), yavuze ko gufata ubutegetsi kw’igisirikare kuzongera umutekano mucye muri Afurika.
Borrell yagize ati: “Iki ni ikibazo gikomeye ku Burayi”.
Hagati aho, kompanyi Eramet y’ubucukuzi bw’amabuye y’agaciro y’Ubufaransa, ikoresha abantu babarirwa mu bihumbi muri Gabon, yavuze ko yahagaritse ibikorwa byayo byose ku mpamvu z’umutekano.
Abasirikare 12 bagaragaye kuri televiziyo batangaza ko baburijemo ibyavuye mu matora kandi ko basheshe “inzego zose za repubulika”, ndetse ko bafunze imipaka y’iki gihugu kugeza batanze irindi tangazo.
Umwe muri abo basirikare yavugiye kuri shene ya televiziyo Gabon 24 ati: “Twafashe icyemezo cyo kurinda amahoro mu gushyira iherezo ku butegetsi buriho”.
Yongeyeho ko ibi byatewe n'”imiyoborere idashyira mu gaciro, itagaragaza ejo hazaza yatumye hakomeza kubaho izahara ry’ubumwe mu baturage riteje ibyago byuko igihugu gishobora kubamo akajagari”.
Humvikanye urusaku rw’amasasu mu murwa mukuru Libreville, nyuma y’itangazo ry’abo basirikare.
Umuturage w’umugabo wo mu mujyi wa Port-Gentil mu burengerazuba bw’igihugu, yabwiye ikiganiro Newsday cyo kuri radio BBC ko yakanguwe n’inshuti ye yamubwiraga ku by’iryo tangazo ry’abasirikare.
Yagize ati: “Hari itangazo ryasubiragamo buri kanya kuri shene ebyiri za televiziyo y’igihugu”. Yongeyeho ko bisa nkaho ibice byose by’igisirikare cya Gabon n’inzego z’umutekano byabigizemo uruhare.
Umwanditsi mukuru w’ishami ry’isi rya BBC, Will Ross, avuga ko ibi byumvikanisha ko iri hirikwa ry’ubutegetsi ritamaze kurangira kandi ko hashobora kubaho kurwanya ababuhiritse.
Nta kintu leta ya Gabon yahise itangaza kuri iryo tangazo ry’abasirikare, ndetse ntibiramenyekana aho Bongo aherereye kuri ubu.
Nyuma y’amatora yo ku wa gatandatu, umurongo wa internet warahagaritswe ku mpamvu z’umutekano, ariko internet yongeye gusubizwaho nyuma gato y’iri riboneka ko ari ihirikwa ry’ubutegetsi. Hari n’umukwabu mu gihugu.
Cyo kimwe no mu matora yabaye mbere muri Gabon, habayeho impungenge zikomeye mu matora yo ku wa gatandatu.
Umukandida ukomeye mu batavuga rumwe n’ubutegetsi, Albert Ondo Ossa, yinubiye ko ibiro by’itora byinshi bitari bifite impapuzo z’itora ziriho izina rye, mu gihe urugaga ahagarariye rwavuze ko amwe mu mazina y’abari bakuyemo kandidatire zabo mu matora yari akigaragara ku rupapuro rw’itora.
Umuryango w’abanyamakuru batagira umupaka, Reporters Sans Frontières, wavuze ko ibitangazamakuru mpuzamahanga byabujijwe kugera muri Gabon gutara amakuru ku matora.
Intsinzi za Bongo zo mu bihe byabanje zombi zamaganwe n’abatavuga rumwe n’ubutegetsi bavuga ko zabayemo uburiganya. Kuri iyi nshuro, impinduka zateje impaka zakozwe ku mpapuro z’itora habura ibyumweru ngo umunsi w’amatora ugere.
Bongo, w’imyaka 64, yageze ku butegetsi ubwo se Omar yapfaga mu 2009.
Mu 2018, yagize uburwayi bw’iturika ry’imitsi yo mu bwonko (buzwi nka stroke), butuma amara hafi umwaka atari mu mirimo ye, bamwe basaba ko yegura.
Mu mwaka wakurikiyeho, igerageza ryo guhirika ubutegetsi bwe ryaburijwemo, abasirikare bari bigometse barafungwa.