The Research and Investigation Department (IRS), the Togolese Revenue Agency (OTR), Justice, these are the strong points of the RPT-UNIR regime. They are brandished like the sword of Damocles on the heads of enlightened citizens who refuse to look in the same direction. With the SRI and the Justice, for nothing at all, for a case to sleep up you are stuck a trial. With the OTR, to silence you, you are hit by a tax adjustment. SRI, Justice, OTR, three institutions in the service of power.
The philosopher Annah Arendt, in his writings against totalitarianism, has shown that plurality of opinions is the presupposition of politics. In this space of perspectives created by politics, only the faculty of judgment allows men to destroy prejudices. This means that politics being the place of deliberation, of discussion for the triumph of a valid argument, excludes violence. In ancient times, Greek thinkers, notably Aristotle, conceived of politics whose aim is the Sovereign Good as the production of "beautiful actions". In this sense, politics is at the service of good and beauty. Political power is not a cold monster; it is the rational organization and the human and humanistic management of society for the sake of happiness and the realization of the aspirations of the people. Through the institutions that embody it, political society is the place of reasonableness and morality. But in the tropics, in some African countries, everything leads one to believe that reason has left the socio-political milieu in favor of the unreason that governs.
In Togo, under the Gnassingbé dynasty embodied in the strong personality of the Prince, everything is under the orders of power. The institutions of the Republic are armed arms of power. SRI, Justice, the Otr, among others, are weapons that Faure Gnassingbe and his power use to settle their accounts with their detractors and silence the non-aligned heads, divergent opinions, enlightened minds. Institutions, instead of serving the people, contribute to their dehumanization. Parallel to the armed forces that respect those who do not want to look in the same direction, it is the institutions of the Republic who are unleashed on their heels. Like what, with the new mode of governance established by the fiftieth regime, everyone must look in the same direction. After putting in sleep mode the infamous National Intelligence Agency (ANR) often criticized for its super powers, its drifts, it is the Service of research and investigation that is reactivated. It is an instrument that power uses against its detractors.
At the least thing that had to be settled by simple and proper procedures, it is the SRI that becomes instrumentalized. In the files of the journalists who should be regulated by the HAAC according to the code of the trade, it is solicited. He has become a real Gestapo that power uses against opponents and those who do not agree with him. He is often accused of torture, inhuman, degrading treatment and kidnapping. With this powerful armed arm of power, citizens can not breathe. A phone call from the SRI is enough to get you on trial. With the complicity of justice that is supposed to protect citizens, but puts itself at the service of power. And yet millions of F CFA or billions have been spent for its modernization. This justice, which should be the last bulwark against violence, bullying, has become the strong arm of the regime and is double standards. In a purely academic affair that could be settled by academic procedures, it was the SRI agents who arrived in the temple of knowledge to become masters.
Teachers are delivered, humiliated and dragged as good for nothing, vulgar. Twenty-year-old students have been sleeping since last week on the premises of the Gendarmerie. And there, the presidency of the University of Lome can not find anything to say. Like what, it is the SRI that makes the law in all sectors. At the pace where things are going, it's like being in North Korea where privacy is under control, where everyone is forced to laugh when the president laughs.
The Togolese Revenue Agency (Otr), the other strong arm of the dictatorship of Lome. His method is cold. For the directors of companies, the entrepreneurs who resist to stand to attention of the regime, they are hit by tax adjustment. The Otr drifts are driving economic operators away and discouraging entrepreneurial initiatives.
If some entrepreneurs put the key under the mat because of the Otr, others prefer to turn in the informal. The Fafa clinic has just had a bitter experience. While its coffers turn red, this clinic whose promising have opted for non-alignment, has just been subjected to a tax adjustment of more than 13 million F CFA. It just risks closing the doors. And the fortnight of Togolese she job may be unemployed. Who benefits from this? The question is valid.
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