In front of the press, the Minister of Territorial Administration and his security colleague yesterday held a radical speech that some called "hateful", demanding that the party of Tikpi Atchadam aligns with their proposal of itinerary , At the risk of being repressed. This did not undermine the determination of the organizers of the march that maintain their manifestations.
It is obvious. The scale that the Pan-African National Party (PNP) intends to give to its Saturday demonstrations creates panic in the camp of power. It is easy to understand the state of mind of the proponents of power following the remarks made by Colonel Yark Damehame, yesterday Thursday, against the press. The officer "I am going to get you in front" went in exaggeration until he talked about shots coming from the demonstrators, preventing merciless reprisals, if necessary.
In the face of the media, Payadowa Boukpessi, the Minister of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Local Government, was the first to take the floor. "It is unique and rare that only one political party can organize a demonstration on the same day at the same time. Obviously, this party is trying to block traffic on national road No. 1. This party wants to block the national road, on 5 sections, the same day at the same time, "he said. "Let's take a simple example. Suppose there is a patient who wants to be evacuated to Lomé from Mango? If it's a punctual event, it's manageable. But on 5 prefectures at the same time on national road number 1 this is not possible. "He continued.
By the way, these remarks of Boukpessi are astonishing. Since when have they, the barons of power, concerned themselves with the sick, in general, and with the sick of Mango in particular? This should be a special pride on the part of someone who has been an eternal minister for the fact that, despite the innumerable years that they have been in power, we must always continue by evacuating, by road, Of the sick for hundreds of kilometers before they could be cured for illnesses that could have been treated in their homes or analyzes that could have been offered to them. It was a parenthesis.
After Boukpessi, it is the turn of Colonel Yark Damehame, who must have a particular aversion for Tikpi Atchadam and supporters whom he describes the party of "politico-ethnic-religious", to speak, and especially to show the muscles.
"We have followed and are still following the PNP party. Wanting to demonstrate on the national level: there are not two motivations. It's blocking the country. We do not have two details: or they stick to the itineraries proposed by the minister and they walk, or they refuse the itinerary proposed by the minister and there is no market, "he said. "He pitied in his speech, pardon, he prefers that journalists talk about his" statement. "
"We know what they have behind their heads, but it will not happen in this country! They want to occupy GTA until the president resigns, it will not happen in this country. The PNP has all the time, it has all the time to prepare itself if it wants to come to power one day, but not by stolen means (...) We followed them. They sent a delegation to neighboring countries to bring back some of our brothers who chose to live in those countries. On Sunday they were in Accra. Some have said something. We are waiting for them. They're wrong, "Yark said.
"You can not be a citizen of two countries," said the Minister of Security and Civil Protection. Oh good? How many of his colleagues or children are content with one nationality? And since when did a law in Togo prohibit the citizen from holding more than one nationality? And since when, as soon as one is no longer in the territory, one must come to take authorization to Yark to militate in a party created on the national territory?
"This party that has a politico-ethnic-religious trend, it will not happen. We observe them. They go out, they come back. If they have bad intentions, it can burn them. Or they keep to the itineraries, the forces of the order will accompany them. But if they refuse, there will be no march. First at the point of regrouping, they will be dispersed in a conventional way, in a clean way. There will be no regrouping. Will come that will be able, "he threatened. And under the influence of his resentments, forgetting certainly that he did not have to deal with his elements, he lets himself go to remarks unworthy of a public official. "How can we admit that the minister invites people and they refuse to come? He complains. For him, a citizen does not respond to an invitation from an "authority" It is an insult. "Who do you think they are?" People say he filled up Agoè stadium. You know where he got people to fill the stadium? If he wants politics, he must have his feet on the ground. Yesterday I followed him on Nana Fm. He cited the example of Burkina Faso. If that's what he has in his head (...), Burkina is Burkina Faso, Togo is Togo. Let us be clear! ", He added, threatening again that" if they dare ... (after a period of silence), in any case it is perhaps others who will tell them " If that's what he has in his head (...), Burkina is Burkina Faso, Togo is Togo. Let us be clear! ", He added, threatening again that" if they dare ... (after a period of silence), in any case it is perhaps others who will tell them " If that's what he has in his head (...), Burkina is Burkina Faso, Togo is Togo. Let us be clear! ", He added, threatening again that" if they dare ... (after a period of silence), in any case it is perhaps others who will tell them "
The threats of the Boukpessi-Yark couple do not seem to shake the PNP. "The law does not give the right to the authority to impose an itinerary," replied Tikpi Atchadam yesterday, explaining that "in Bafilo the demonstration has nothing to do with the national number 1. In Lomé, we Let us just occupy one side of the boulevard, "before insisting that" there is no occupation of the national road number 1. And we are Saturday ".
In his comments, Atchadam even made a comparison. "Suppose this march is a march of support to Faure, will they change our itinerary? We can even go through the General Staff, cross it, we will not be told anything. Unir had planned to demonstrate at the Dove of Peace. They are the sons of the king. They can walk everywhere. It is simply trickery. " Responding to fears of government violence and Yark's intentions, the president of PNP wanted to be reassuring: "We took more than a year to train our activists to non-violence. The demonstration holds, it will be peaceful, unless they put their thugs among us "
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