Eventually, I decided to suspend the programme after I
sensed that, Ninelle Sassou Nguesso, one of the daughters of President Denis
Sassou Nguesso and the wife of Hugues Ngouelondele, the Lord Mayor of Greater
Brazzaville City Council, had made the phone- in- programme on MN Radio called:
“Overture sûr l’info”, one of the main subject of their regular family meetings.
Ninelle Sassou Nguesso claimed during their meetings that, it was Jean De Dieu
KOURISSA, the husband of Mrs. KOURISSA, who has ordered me to start a smear
campaign against her husband (Hugues Ngouelondele). The origin of the intra
ruling Nguesso family feud, pitting on one side Lydie Hortense Kourissa, the
eldest daughter of Maurice Nguesso and on the other side, Ninelle Sassou
Nguesso, the daughter of Denis Sassou Nguesso began in 2007 legislative and
Council elections. Why? To cut a long story short, The Kourissas were part of
the returnee Nguessos from Libreville, where like the rest of the large contingent
of the ruling Nguessos, they flew in
Libreville and stayed there when their sister and cousin, Edith Lucie Bongo
Ondimba was the wife of President Omar Bongo Ondimba.
However, when Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba fell sick and
was flown to France for medical treatment, the Nguessos were no longer welcomed
in Libreville at the presidential palace known in French as “Palais du bord de
Mer.” The one amongst the ruling Bongo
family in Libreville who regarded the Nguessos as an invasion from Congo, was
Ali Bongo Ondimba, the son of late Omar Bongo Ondimba and current president. He
had a visceral hatred for Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba, the wife of his father. It
partly explains the reason why President Denis Sassou Nguesso doesn’t want to
see president Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon. It is because the current Congolese ruling family
was no longer welcomed in Gabon, at least within power circles that, they began
planning for their home coming. President Denis Sassou Nguesso never wanted
Jean De Dieu Kourissa, the husband of his niece (Lydie Hortense Kourissa) to
return home and start idling around. President Denis Sassou Nguesso can be accused
of all things negative, but he is a family man. He has strong love for his
family and it is also part of the reason why he has failed in the administration
of the country. For he always wants to satisfy his family interest first.
And since their best profession is politics, the uncle
in-law of Jean de Dieu Kourissa decided that, Jean De Dieu Kourissa since he was
born in Poto-poto, he must be made a member of parliament. However what the president never knew or
expected was the challenge that would be mounted by another native of Poto-poto
by name Nicephore Antoine Fylla de Saint Eudes to the Candidacy of Jean De Dieu
Kourissa. Between Nicephore Antoine Fylla de Saint Eudes and Jean de Dieu
Kourissa both born and bred in Poto-poto, it is the first who is more popular
than the second. Furthermore, the other disadvantaged that Jean De Dieu
Kourissa has is that, he is married to the niece of President Denis Sassou
Nguesso, who is not loved in Poto-poto because of two things: he is suspected
to have assassinated Marien Ngouabi and also because he wanted to modernize the
neighborhood. To the natives of Poto-poto, no matter the good intension of the
president, modernization to them was a metaphor for expropriation.
And the man who fought against the expropriation of Poto-poto
was Nicephore Antoine Fylla de Saint Eudes. But during the 2007 legislative
elections that were fraught with monumental fraud in favour of Jean de Dieu
Kourissa, the Nguessos were united to give their brother and son-in-law a job.
However, what they, in particular did not know was that, the municipal
councilors of Greater Brazzaville, even though belonging to the ruling PCT Party
don’t like the Nguessos. Furthermore, Jean De Dieu Kourissa is partly ethnic
Mbouchi from his mother and partly ethnic Lari from his father. Although he is
more Mbouchi, than Lari, most PCT councilors and MPs from the Greater
Brazzaville, being ethnic Laris and Kongos had preferred, that, the post of
Lord Mayor of the Greater Brazzaville city council, should go to one of theirs.
It
was Jean De Dieu KOURISSA, their choice. The ruling PCT councilors in Brazzaville voted
and wanted him (Jean De Dieu KOURISSA) to become Lord Mayor of the Greater Brazzaville
city Council. But the wishes of the PCT councilors as well as those of PCT
member of parliaments were not taken into consideration.
Regarding why the wishes of the PCT councilors of
Brazzaville was not taken into consideration or ignored, Isidore MVOUBA, former
Prime Minister, and currently Minister of Commerce, told me that, Ninelle
Sassou Nguesso was the one who was vehemently opposed. In other words, if Jean
De Dieu Kourissa is not Mayor of the Greater Brazzaville city council and could
only console himself with his position of MP, it is because of one woman: Ninelle
Sassou Nguesso. However, while not underestimating the influence of Ninelle
Sassou Nguesso within the Sassou Nguesso power galaxy, the true game changer
was Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba, the late beloved daughter of President Denis
Sassou Nguesso. According to Isidore
MVOUBA, it was an alleged intervention from Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba, the late wife of
late Omar Bongo Ondimba on her father (Denis Sassou Nguesso) that forced or
tilted the table in the favour of the husband of Ninelle Sassou Nguesso. The President
of the Republic convinced by her late elder daughter to appoint his son-in-law
as Lord Mayor of the Greater Brazzaville City Council, instructed Isidore
MVOUBA, to ask the ruling PCT councilors in the Greater Brazzaville City
Council to drop Jean De Dieu KOURISSA for the proposed post of lord mayor in
favour of for Hugues Ngouelondele.
Mr Ngouelondele is the son-in-law of the President
Denis Sassou Nguesso while Jean de Dieu Kourissa is the son-in-law of Maurice
Nguesso. Jean De Dieu Kourissa could at
least console himself that, he was elected in controversial manner as a ruling
PCT MP for Poto-poto, a populous neighborhood of Brazzaville at the expense of
Nicephore Antoine Fylla de Saint Eudes. The pressure of Ninelle Sassou Nguesso
did not only succeed to maneuver and to put her husband as mayor of the Greater
Brazzaville city council and as you will
read later on, she succeeded years later on, precisely in 2012, to make her
husband to be elected as member of
parliament for the Gamboma 1 legislative constituency. This time around, the
second victim of Ninelle Sassou Nguesso after Jean De Dieu Kourissa was Mathias
Dzon.
The husband of Ninelle who was an MP for Brazzaville
who was at the end of his mandate, but he succeeded an electoral feat some
300km away from his Brazzaville base, at the expense of the very popular and charismatic
Mathias Dzon. Mr Dzon is the main rival of President Denis Sassou Nguesso and
there was no way Hugues Ngouelondele could have defeated Mr Dzon in his fief of
Gamboma. Hugues Ngouelondele was elected in Gamboma 1 not because he was
popular but out of the military bullying the people and brutal electoral fraud.
Ninelle Sassou Nguesso is a very
influential member of the ruling family. Although she is cantankerous and most
often bullies her half brothers and sisters, especially those born out of wedlock
and recently recognized, she doesn’t brag or she is not the show and tell kind
of the newly minted Nguessos. At MNCOM
or to be précised MNTV/ MN Radio, she also succeeded to put off air another
very popular Radio call-in- Programme called “Good Morning Congo”. It was
presented by Willy MESAMOU aka Mr Jekyll. Within the ruling Nguesso family, the
Ninelle Sassou Nguesso wing was the most hawkish.
They are also the ones who think that, their father,
Denis Sassou Nguesso was born to rule Congo everlastingly. This wing doesn’t
like freedom of speech nor democracy. They were the ones who considered that, I
had a mission to destroy their divine rule with my independent reporting and
management of MNTV/MN Radio. They were also the ones who not only began
attacking me and MNTV/MN Radio, but were bent at destroy the media group of
their uncle. Their attacks was not only directed on MN Radio, they also
attacked the print media that was publishing the newspaper called Le Fanion.
That was suspended for a long while just to satisfy the whims and caprices of
Ninelle Sassou Nguesso, who was the wife of the Lord Mayor of the Brazzaville
Greater City Council. But where they used all weapons available in their
distructive armory was on Television. It is true that, most of what Maurice
Nguesso does as investments don’t seem to succeed simply because his ambition
is simply to create or offer jobs to Congolese. And as already mentioned, on
several occasions, most coming to work for Maurice Nguesso or in any of his
companies think, that, they don’t need to invest much time to work.
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