section_path: Career
section_name: Career
paragraph_text: Career
  
  Oligui studied at Meknes Royal Military Academy in Morocco. He served as an aide-de-camp to President Omar Bongo until his death in 2009. He then served as a military attaché at the Gabonese embassies in Morocco and Senegal.
  
  In October 2018, he was recalled to Gabon where he replaced President Ali Bongo 's half-brother Colonel Frédéric Bongo at the head of the intelligence service of the Republican Guard. He was then promoted to brigadier general in April 2019. In 2021 he restarted Operation Mamba, a campaign to arrest corrupt officials.
  
  He took over as head of the Gabonese Republican Guard in April 2020, replacing General Grégoire Kouna, a cousin of then President Ali Bongo. He significantly increased the Special Interventions Section (SIS), a special unit placed under the direct authority of the President, increasing it from around thirty to more than 300 elements. He also composed a song which included the line "I would defend my president with honour and loyalty".
  
  According to a 2020 Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) investigation, he owns several properties in the United States worth more than $1 million and also helped expand the Bongos' overseas businesses. Asked about these dealings, he said they were a "private affair".
  
  Officials of Bongo's regime and others who had interacted with Oligui described him as a "fairly intelligent man, easy to talk to", "discreet" and "a man of consensus" who is "very appreciated by his men".