Sibacha
Bueicheku credits government for reforms and development and urges exiles to
return
Sibacha Bueicheku, chairman of the Union for Democracy and Social
Development party and deputy coordinator of the Common Front of the Opposition
in Exile, has returned to Equatorial Guinea after living abroad in Spain for 35
years.
Bueicheku told local media that he was struck by the dramatic
changes in the country. “Since my arrival here, I’m completely amazed because
the reality is different from the information given to us by those who are
outside the country,” he said.
He said that western media and critics of Equatorial
Guinea’s government had
misrepresented the situation in the country.
Bueicheku praised the country’s progress in improving
infrastructure and raising the standard of living in the country as well as its
democratic development, and encouraged other opposition figures in self-imposed
exile to return home and promote peace. “This is what we have to do, unite,
because they are not going to fix our society from abroad. Everything is a pure
distraction,” he said.
President Obiang has long encouraged Equatoguineans living abroad
to return to the country.
The government of Equatorial Guinea has implemented several reform
and infrastructure projects in the recent years as part of the country’s Horizon
2020 development plan, which
was launched by President
Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in
2007. Some of the projects include the development of new African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa; the establishment
of GECOMSA, a telecom
company with improved
wireless and internet connectivity; constitutional reform; and an expansion to
the liquefied
natural gas (LNG) Train
project.
