«The shortages fuel a mafia-like black market in big cities, with prices exploding (15,000 FCFA [around 23 euros] on average for a box of ARVs, compared to 5,000 FCFA [around 8 euros] before free ARVs in the country). » We see corruption in public pharmacies, which supply their loved ones first or sell ARVs at prohibitive prices (100,000 FCFA per box [152 euros]) and parallel supply circuits via neighboring countries. » Prabonnaud, F. (2017, October 11). In Congo-Brazzaville, stock shortages of ARVs are a chronic problem. Sidaction.
Pami Partners appears six times in the MSP’s 2022 social expenditure schedule for costs relating to acquiring antiretrovirals (ARVs) for the benefit of the purchasing center. It is disturbing that the drug purchasing center, whose primary mission is this, delegates its supply of antiretrovirals to a company unknown in the most recent Congolese national company file.
In 2017, an investigation by Transversal magazine reported that ARV shortages were chronic and generated a black market at the expense of people living with HIV.
The disruptions result from «poor governance and non-prioritization of the allocation of national budgets towards the rational purchase of medicines.»
It belongs to Judicaelle Prudence Mouandinga Okemba Darboux, the daughter of the Congolese secret services boss and President Sassou Nguesso’s nephew, Admiral Jean Dominique Okemba
In the summer of 2017, again, according to the Magazine Transversal investigation, the government agreed to release funds and ordered around 500 million FCFA (760,000 euros) of ARVs from the IDA foundation. In 2018, the percentage of treatment sites out of stock of one or more antiretroviral drugs needed was 95.9%, according to the UNAIDS Country Report.
Pami Partners is a company incorporated under Swiss law, previously known until March 1, 2022, under the name Serenity Cosmetics Suisse SA. This company managed the SPA and distributed cosmetic products in Brazzaville. It belongs to Judicaelle Prudence Mouandinga Okemba Darboux, the daughter of the Congolese secret services boss and President Sassou Nguesso’s nephew, Admiral Jean-Dominique Okemba. In the Assets Abound report, we traced a real estate acquisition by Judicaelle Okemba in Dubai. The daughter of the powerful boss of the secret services is also on the board of directors of the South African telecommunications company TELEO, alongside prestigious names like Cheikh Modibo Diarra, an American-Malian who retired from NASA.
In Brazzaville, Pami Partners is domiciled at 29 bis rue Mbochis in Brazzaville, an address shared with a lawyer, Maître Awola Nestor. Pami Partner organized «an African summit on finance, banking and digitalization» on February 25 and 26, 2024. We are very far from supplying ARVs.
Judicaelle also manages at 108 Rue de la Musique Tambourinée, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, the company SERENITY CONGO SARLU, which, according to the Dun & Bradstreet website, has a turnover of $1.61 million. Jean-Dominique Okemba, Judicaelle’s father, is also chairman of the board of directors of the main local bank, BGFI CONGO.
Judicaëlle Okemba presented her company, Serenity Spa and Cosmetic Line – Serenity Cosmetics, during a lobbying evening organized by Courville Consultants LLC on May 27, 2016, in Washington. The Congolese embassy in Washington financed this evening for a total amount of 28,000 USD. Judicaëlle Okemba addressed diplomats in the American capital.
At the same period, the regime has been bombing the Pool region since April 2016 and sequestering presidential election candidate Jean Marie Michel Mokoko.
It should be noted that Jesse Jackson and the Ambassador of Benin, Omar Arouna, were present at this gala.
The links between Reverend Jackson and the Republic of Congo are old and deep.
In 1986, when President Reagan refused to receive President Sassou Nguesso, it was Jesse Jackson, his regular visitor to the Willard Hotel, who took offense via his contacts in the American press in terms with anti-Semitic overtones:
Jesse Jackson wonders if anyone would treat an Israeli leader this way. The answer is no: if only because it would offend American Jews.
For Jesse Jackson, Denis Sassou Nguesso, ignored by the «white press,» was a sponsor and supporter of the black cause, more precisely of his cause.
In 2021, the Reverend receives a visit from Brice Dimitri Bayendissa, PCT MP and campaign director of President Sassou Nguesso.
We have identified two Pami Partners employees, Christelle Nanda and Christelle Jomotia. Perhaps they are the same person. These employees are also sales representatives of another structure that allegedly belongs to the Okemba clan, the company Le Trefle SA.
This real estate company markets luxury apartments in the Moabi Tower, a high-end R+10 residential building in the heart of Brazzaville. The tower offers 28 apartments, including two penthouses.
On the issue of ARVs, there is no call for tenders or contracts awarded over the counter.
However, the annual report of the General Directorate of Public Procurement Control for 2022 mentions the award of contracts to Pami Partner for a total amount of 2,880,203,909 FCFA, or approximately 4,757,411 euros. In comparison, the annual budget of the Brazzaville University Hospital is five hundred million FCFA.
The contract between Pami Partner and the Ministry of Health cannot be found.
The three contracts awarded to Pami Partners for purchasing imaging equipment were not completed.
According to figures from the general directorate of public procurement control and the PWYP Congo 2020-2022 report on the health system, the disbursement rate is 55.10% of the budget of five hundred million FCFA for each contract.
The PWYP Congo 2020-2022 report on the health system is also completely silent on executing the provision of ARVs.
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