The new Executive Secretary of Gabon’s Rail Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF) took office on May 16. If he is committed to continuing the projects initiated by Karine Arissani, Prosper Ekomesse Nguema has promised to carry out far-reaching reforms for a new railway pact.
Prosper Ekomesse Nguema officially took office as Executive Secretary of the Rail Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF) on May 16. If he has recognized that the projects are huge, the new Executive Secretary of ARTF wants to tackle the review of several institutional, economic and technical mechanisms. According to Prosper Ekomesse Nguema, this revision involves the urgent establishment of a “new railway pact which must be submitted to the government”. Appointed on May 8 in the Council of Ministers, Prosper Ekomesse Nguema succeeds Karine Arissani appointed Counselor at the Ministry of Culture and the Arts.
In ten months at the head of ARTF, Karine Arissani says she has made several reforms. On the financial side, it claims to have found a “lasting solution on the rail registration dossier not recovered from the Ogooué mining company COMILOG and Gabon special economic zone (GSEZ)”. She was also delighted to have obtained on the social level “the signing of a technical service agreement for medical coverage of ARTF agents and their dependents”