School « The seven dwarfs» -
The Jordanian peacekeeping battalion donates school kits

Soir Info  –
UNOCI's 8^th Jordanian peacekeeping battalion, on Thursday, 17 June
2010, was at the nursery and primary school "The seven dwarfs" in Zone 4. The
Commander, Sami Hal-Qaralleh, donated two hundreds school kits to the nursery's
school children. That was in the presence of the Founder Director of the school,
Mrs. Sempah Marguerite. "It is the King of Jordan, His Excellency Ad Addalah 2,
who asked for the donation. If we are here next week, we will make another
donation because once the beneficiary's name is registered in Jordan we can have
donations for them. The bags come from Jordan", he said. (...)

Checking of the white list –
This is how the 1,700,000 enrolled persons will be checked

Nord Sud  –
The checking of the provisional electoral list known as the "white" list started
since Monday. According to the method adopted on 4 June by the institutions
involved in the electoral and identification process, the checking will focus on
the references and information on the certificates of civil status of the
petitioners who were cross-checked through their ancestries with the different
files in the centralized records, that is to say 1,792,356 petitioners. (...)
After examination, the individuals whose information does not match with the
data available in the various files will be subjected to a physical check in the
districts with the registers of civil status, on the basis of a list established
by area. In this regard, the persons whose civil status' information is not
found will have a file supported with documentary evidence and the files will be
handed over to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and the Prime Minister
will inform the political parties. However, "no appeals for exclusion can be
done at this level. The normal procedure for the appeals process on the
provisional electoral list remains in force, as stated by the legal and
regulation framework of the electoral process", states the modus operandi
adopted. (...)

32 elements of Bourne put in
barracks

Nord Sud  –
32 elements of Bouna are involved in the 1^st phase of the cantonment
which was launched on 15 June. The soldiers who went to Korhogo have returned to
their headquarters. According to Commander Ben Ibrahim, they have not been
registered because of a lack of logistical means. They will stay in Bouna until
their leadership calls them for their effective cantonment.

Méité Sindou
(Soro's spokesman): "These accusations are unfounded"

Soir Info  -

The accusations at the heart of the inquiry ordered by President Laurent Gbagbo,
according to which Prime Minister Guillaume Soro is accused of having received a
commission from the French company Sagem are "unfounded", the spokesman for Mr.
Soro declared yesterday. "We do not feel concerned by these accusations", said
Sindou Meïté, denouncing them as "unfounded claims and lacking any basis ». Mr.
Gbagbo, on Sunday, ordered an inquiry to be opened on accusations of the
embezzling of funds made against one of his close associates, the Interior
Minister,  Désiré Tagro, which were made by the president of the National
Assembly Mamadou Koulibaly, - both of them members of the presidential camp. The
inquiry should also establish whether Mr. Tagro « acted alone or with others »,
namely the Prime Minister, in the matter of the 10 billion francs CFA (15 M
euros) which he is alleged to have received as commission from Sagem Sécurité"
which is involved in the Ivorian electoral process, according to a communiqué
from the President's Office.
(...)

Will a parliamentary inquiry be
necessary?

It could be a complete waste of time!
It is also good for Ivorians to see an inquiry which is being diligently
prepared by the Public Prosecutor, Raymond Tchimou, following a request from the
head of state on the Tagro affair. Our compatriots, generally observers of
Ivorian political life, who see this operation as simple outburst from Gbagbo,
deliberately given to the media, are not wrong. There are many examples. (...) The
Prosecutor Tchimou does not inspire confidence among all the political classes
even less so among the opposition. So, since there will be no national
commission, a parliamentary inquiry is more than necessary. With its current
configuration, the national assembly is the structure most competent to carry
out a credible and transparent inquiry. This is why in its speech on 2 June,
before the Ivorian Civil Society Convention, Mamadou Koulibaly called for a
parliamentary commission of inquiry. In any case, no inquiry can prevent
parliament from carrying out its own. The parliamentary groups at the national
assembly, namely the PDCI, UDPCI, Solidarity, have already agreed. The ball is
in Koulibaly's court and he now has to turn his words into action.  

Good governance: Raymond
Tchimou faces the press tomorrow

Fraternité Matin  –
Last Sunday, the
Public Prosecutor of the Court of First Instance in Abidjan-Plateau, was
officially asked by the President of the Republic to inquire into four serious
issues. These involve accusations of bribery in the attribution on contract to
Sagem sécurité, undue influence in the entrance exams for the national police
school and embezzling of funds. On Wednesday, Féhou Raymond Tchimou is holding a
press conference to explain the procedure of the inquiry. But there are those
who say that contrary to the inquiry on alleged fraud on the provisional
electoral list, the public prosecutor is in a very uncomfortable situation. "I'm
asking myself how Mr. Tchimou is going to carry out the instructions of the head
of state", said a member of the Ivorian bar who wished to remain anonymous. In
this affair, his role, according to one magistrate who also wished to remain
anonymous is irregular and logically he should dexcalre himself incompetent to
carry it out.  The accused are in effect Asségnini Désiré Tagro, Interior
Minister and Kigbafori Guillaume Soro, the Prime Minister, who have special
privileges: they must be judged not by common law but by a special jurisdiction,
the high court of justice according to title IX of law n°2000-513 of the 1st
August 2000 according to the Constitution of Côte d'Ivoire. "The high court of
justice is competent to judge members of Government for crimes committed which
carrying out their duties" as stipulated by article 110 of fundamental law.
(...)