Gabon’s Ministry of Justice has suspended the judge who allowed opposition campaigners to demand the president has a medical check-up, according to the privately-owned Gabonese news website Gabonactu.

The appeal court judge who scheduled a hearing on a petition that President Ali Bongo should undergo medical tests to determine whether he’s fit to rule.

Judge Paulette Ayo Mba has been suspended until Sept. 30 without pay for “refusing to respect a decision” issued July 26 by a head judge, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement, without elaborating further on the charge. Earlier this month, Mba granted the hearing at the request of opposition supporters, whose bid for an independent medical exam of Bongo’s physical and mental health was dismissed by a trial court in May.

On 12 August the president of Libreville Court of Appeal, Paulette Ayo Mba, declared admissible a complaint by the Call for Action movement that was asking for President Ali Bongo to have the check up to determine whether he is capable of performing his duties, Gabonactu reports.

She scheduled the hearing for 26 August.

There has been speculation for some time about the state of Mr Bongo’s health.

He returned to Gabon at the end of March after five months of recovery abroad following after suffering a stroke in Saudi Arabia last October.

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