CODITOGO Communiqué on the interpellation of the Vice-Dean of the University of Lomé

PRESS RELEASE CODITOGO
Washington DC, March 13, 2018

N.Ref. C1803 / 001

It is with consternation and indignation that CODITOGO follows the events that take place in the Department of Sciences and Health of the University of Lomé.

The interpellation of the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Lomé, Professor Majesté Wateba Ihou, for an allegation of marks falsely granted to some students, the police harassment exercised on Professor Ekoue David Dosseh who was summoned to the SRI (Intelligence and Investigation Services) repeatedly without the reason for the summons being clearly served on him by the gendarmes, the arbitrary detention of Professor Dosseh's son, Yann Dosseh, a medical student, and finally the arrest of other students for undeclared reasons, indicate the desire of the Togolese Government to institutionalize university institutions.

The University of Lome has internal crisis resolution mechanisms related to notes, and these can be activated at any time to solve this problem. Deliberately choosing not to do so illustrates the unacknowledged objective of the Togolese military-civilian regime of beheading the Togo Standing Front, which Professor David Dosseh is primarily responsible for.

CODITOGO denounces these retrograde practices and calls on the Togolese people, standing and determined, to be vigilant.

CODITOGO condemns the police harassment of Togolese civil society officials.

CODITOGO is pleased that popular pressure has finally led to the release of those arrested in this grotesque montage. It calls on the entire Togolese Diaspora around the world to mobilize to counter any attempt to subordinate and subjugate civil society organizations by the Togolese autocratic regime.

The popular struggle is invincible.

For CODITOGO,

Pierre Ekue Gamessou Kpodar

General Coordinator

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