Libreville municipality records surplus in 2025 administrative account

The atmosphere at the Libreville City Hall suggests a definitive return to institutional stability. Municipal councillors recently gathered in the Jean-Félix Lassy room for an ordinary session focused on the review and adoption of the administrative and management accounts for the 2025 fiscal year. This meeting, held in the presence of the Governor of the Estuaire province, Marie-Françoise Dikoumba, comes at a pivotal time for the local administration.

The current proceedings follow a period of significant political shifts. Last April, the rejection of the 2026 draft budget by a majority of the council triggered a transition that saw the departure of the executive team led by Pierre Matthieu Obame Etoughe and the subsequent election of a new bureau headed by Eugène Mba. In this restored climate of cooperation, elected officials have resumed the standard course of municipal business, adhering to decentralisation laws that mandate the audit of the previous year’s accounts during the year’s first ordinary session.

During the opening of the session, the Mayor of Libreville, Eugène Mba, highlighted that the administrative account serves as the definitive record of all budgetary operations conducted during the year. This document allows for a transparent comparison between the initial budget forecasts and the actual revenue collected and expenditures processed.

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For the 2025 fiscal year, the budget established under the special delegation was initially set at 25.623 billion CFA francs, later adjusted with an additional 500 million CFA francs. Data presented to the municipal councillors indicates that the administrative account project closed with a positive management result of 1.311 billion CFA francs. While Eugène Mba noted that he was not leading the city during the period in question, he cited the fundamental principle of the continuity of public service as the basis for presenting this financial report to the council.

The Mayor urged the representatives to evaluate the submitted documents with a sense of objectivity and civic duty. In addition to voting on the administrative and management accounts, the councillors were tasked with deliberating on the Mindoubé commercial complex. Municipal authorities view this facility as a strategic asset to stimulate local economic growth and bolster the city’s financial resources.