 After President Gbagbo extended National Assembly's parliamentary mandate in January 2005, contrary to the wishes of United Nations mediators, Koulibaly strongly criticized the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) in an interview with the newspaper "Le Courrier" that was published on 1 February 2006.According to Koulibaly, UNOCI had ceased to play a positive role in the resolving the Ivorian conflict and was only exacerbating the situation.In June 2010, Koulibaly accused Désiré Tagro—the Minister of the Interior and another top ally of Gbagbo—of embezzling money and showing regional favoritism regarding admissions to a training school for the police.