At the death of his father in February 2005, by an unheard-of gymnastics that all Africa will not soon forget, Faure Gnassingbe became the new president of Togo in place of the constitutional president. He later declared that his father had asked them to be careful not to lose power because it would be difficult for them to win back.
It was recalled that shortly after the fall of Blaise Compaoré, a summit of ECOWAS heads of state had taken place in Accra, during which the problem of limiting the mandate of Heads of State in the Community area had been on the agenda. All other West African leaders had opted for the limitation of the mandate except for two specimens: Faure Gnassingbe of Togo and the former Gambian ogre Yahya Jammeh.
Of these two, in this community which counts fifteen states, there remains only Faure Gnassingbé who has chosen to continue to shame Togo and that of the community of which our country is also the initiator. Today, after the fall of Jammeh, it is inconceivable that Togo, which is at the origin of the foundation of ECOWAS, continues to stand alone as a bad example in the subregion.
From the moment when Faure Gnassingbe thought it normal and conceivable to be the rotating presidency of ECOWAS, we believe that now is the time to seize this opportunity to make him understand the imperative need for a country like Togo which has was the first to conceive the project of such a regrouping, to comply with the political uniformity under way in all the other fourteen States. For this dissonance is very disorderly. It is not a matter of running to the left and right for the sole reason of working for frontiers without barriers. We must think of creating within our states conditions of stability which guarantee a harmonious development.
Just as ECOWAS officials have been able to put pressure on alternatives today in the Gambia, it is their duty to use the same pressure so that Togo, which has for more than 50 years been privately owned, a clan, in short one family, becomes once again a normal republic where genuine democracy can settle permanently for the good of all Togolese, and no longer this facade and lip-service democracy.
The Togolese certainly need a lasting peace built on the satisfaction of the citizens themselves on the basis of the good management of the policies and not this artificial and folkloric peace with which the power entertains the Togolese through pretended concerts for the peace and patati-patata.
At the present time, there is only the involvement of all ECOWAS Heads of State to restore hope and smile. This implication will undoubtedly result in the call to order of those veterans who still hesitate to give the definitive boost in their country so that cease third secret projects cease as is the case with the so-called teacher who holds at this time the reindeers of the power of Guinea-Conakry.
Togo must cease to be an outlaw state whose leaders are not ashamed of making their justice a two-speed justice under power, whose justiciables and their lawyers are obliged each time to solicit community justice in order to enjoy their rights.
It is a shame for Togo and the Togolese. It may happen that once in the space of five or ten years, for example, ECOWAS is solicited to settle a bad case in Togo. But when it becomes frequent and it is not the same elsewhere in the subregion, it is proof that justice, the last bulwark of society does not work in Togo.
The most dramatic scenario is the burning of the Lomé and Kara markets, which in all respects has now proved to be a terrible conspiracy of our own political leaders against the economy of their own country with curiously arbitrary arrests and with this the complicity of the first judicial authorities. All this, with a view to demobilizing the Togolese opposition for the perpetuation of a regime. Four years later, the court did not think it necessary to organize a trial, since the real authors are known and they are in the ranks of the power. What then is this country where one voluntarily chooses to destroy everything in order to start from scratch? ECOWAS out of love for the Togolese must act imperatively because we are dealing with men and women who amuse themselves with the destiny of a whole people and it has lasted for a long time.
Under Faure Gnassingbe and in twelve years, the Togolese feel that he delighted the star to his progenitor who spent thirty-eight years at the head of the country. No sense of restraint and all his actions are modeled on provocation. How can we justify that Faure allow itself to decorate people who have committed crimes and to promote them? The case of Major Kouloum, principal personage presumed guilty who had mourned in 2005 the city of Atakpame who had to pay the heaviest tribute. Faure Gnassingbé is in the process of capturing the star to his sire; we do not want to prove that under the latter, in spite of his many crimes, he had not made himself an accomplice in the time of the burning of any market. This performance, Faure achieved in eight years of governance. He denounces the plunder of public funds, but none of the robbers known to all are arrested until today. Its plundering ministers strutted in the republic and taunted the people after having diverted the funds for the construction of the roads.
The current head of state, after having commissioned an inquiry at the CNDH on torture and obtained the result, a result that reflects the reality of the facts, is itself part of those who did not appreciate the work. Hence the departure in exile of the president of the CNDH. It has entered into the logic of treading underfoot all the agreements, notably the APG welcomed in its time by the international community although having promised to ensure its strict execution. The CVJR, which has done an extraordinary job and whose report was presented to it in 2012, has every difficulty in implementing its recommendations. If, for the past five years, Faure had translated the findings and recommendations of this committee into practice and since 2006 had been applying the content of the APG to the letter,
To shed the blood of the citizens, nothing better for Faure Gnassingbe, Gilbert Bawara, Boukpessi, Yark Damehane and others. That is why when the opposition and the people are mobilizing to put pressure on the country's saving reforms, the government finds it necessary to utter threats against the people and the opposition wrongly accusing honest citizens of being terrorists working on behalf of jihadists. This is why, whenever the opposition organizes peaceful marches to demand the cessation of diversions and the passage of institutional and constitutional reforms, the power is directed towards provocation by organizing counter-demonstrations tending to disrupt social peace. It is not the role of responsible leaders. The latest finding was for the government to try to ban demonstrations during the week just after it had just engaged in it. The aim is also to make provocation by proceeding in a jiffy to the violation of the laws governing public demonstrations, thus indirectly proceeding to the making of a plan to still make victims.
Is it not curious that those who have burnt two large public markets in the country, destroying the economy of the country whose actors are struggling to recover, say they want to protect the smooth running of all types of professional activities? Is it not they who have refused for weeks or even months to satisfy the workers and especially the health workers in their just and legitimate demands, not to mention the teachers whose pupils have stayed at home for several weeks at home who suddenly find that it is necessary to allow everyone to go about his activities?
In any case, ECOWAS must take its responsibilities and bring as soon as possible Faure Gnassingbé and his friends to return to common sense, the best shared thing in the world. Faure must not bother with what his father told him and refuse to do the reforms. Togo is not owned by a family.
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