>Organs are worthless when you are dead.
The Screams Keep the Powers Fresh
Most of the body parts taken for medicine correspond directly with the powers desired, experts said.
But the most gruesome part of muti is that the body parts are usually taken while the victim is alive, because death is believed to reduce the potency of the medicine.
6 January 2006
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80185&page=1
Brice Laccruche Alihanga, a once-powerful chief of staff under Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison after a high-profile trial sparked by an anti-corruption crackdown.
Laccruche, 41, became a powerbroker in the oil-rich state after Bongo suffered a stroke in October 2018 and spent months convalescing abroad.
Shortly after Bongo returned to the political stage, Laccruche was sidelined in November 2019 and then became a target in an anti-corruption drive that also aimed at several high-flying associates.
Bongo was first elected in 2009 after the death of his father Omar, who led the country for 42 years.
October 29, 2021
https://news.yahoo.com/ex-aide-gabons-bongo-jailed-101101128.html
In 2019, the anti-corruption campaign Operation Scorpion generated eight arrests of senior Gabonese administration officials, accused of “siphoning off public funds and money laundering” through the end of October 2019. On December 13, 2019, the former presidential Chief of Staff Brice Laccruche was arrested and sent to prison. Pro-government newspaper L’Union reported in November 2019 that more than 85 billion CFA ($142 million) has “evaporated” over the past two years from the funds of the Gabon Oil Company (GOC). Under Gabonese law, embezzlement of public funds is punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to 100 million CFA ($170,000).
https://2017-2021.state.gov/report/custom/983d70349b/index.html
Ali Bongo of Gabon: among African leaders named in Pandora Papers investigation as hiding assets in offshore tax havens.
04.10.2021
https://www.dw.com/en/pandora-papers-expose-african-leaders-offshore-secrets/a-59399552
President Obama meets with President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon in the Oval Office Thursday.
A 2009 New York Times headline read: “Underneath Palatial Skin, Corruption Rules Gabon.”
The article detailed the lavish life of the Bongo family, which stands in stark contrast to the ‘have-nots…just around the corner.”
Pressed on the wisdom of the visit in light of swirling allegations, White House Spokesman Jay Carney said President Bongo is “making reform efforts which we support.”
https://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/09/gabon%E2%80%99s-bongo-drums-up-controversy-with-oval-office-visit/