Announced as a plausible solution to the crisis that has shaken Togo for more than six months, the dialogue officially opened February 19 in Lomé after three days of work of the preparatory committee, has lead in the wing. After the opening, facilitator Nana Akufo-Addo weighed her weight against Faure Gnassingbe to snatch some of the appeasement measures in this case the release of 41 political detainees on the list of 102 presented by the Coalition of 14 parties opposition policies.
But since Friday, February 23, the resumption of discussions, it is the blockage. Facilitation spokesman Daniel Osei, Ghana's ambassador to Togo in a kind of euphemism, announced Friday after a few hours of talks at the Evala Room at the February 2 Hotel that the work went off in serenity. He announced the suspension of discussions and resumption at "a date to be decided later".
Faure president for life, the reason for the blockage
The Ghanaian diplomat did not say everything. The dialogue is on the verge of breaking. First of all, after the opening of the proceedings, it was well established in the timeline that the issue of the release of persons arrested in the fire case and those questioned during recent demonstrations should be given priority consideration. Immediately a list of 102 people was presented. At first, the government says it has found only 92 people. At the end of the negotiations which made several turns to the Ghanaian president between the Hotel February 2 and the Presidency of the Republic at the Marina, we speak of a presidential pardon for 45 inmates and that the others will be studied case by case . Knowing the rudeness of power, the coalition of the opposition to the dialogue demanded and obtained that the promise of liberation be held before the resumption of works. And a truce of 72 hours was decreed.
On arrival, only 35 people arrested during the last demonstrations and 6 people detained in the Lomé and Kara market fire cases since 2013, were able to recover their freedom. Clearly, even the 45 people announced as free by some presidential grace, finally 41 have actually left. At this precise level, there is a real desire to sabotage the dialogue and make other prisoners hostages to continue the blackmail.
The minimum execution of the appeasement measures is the first reason for the blocking observed Friday. The second point of the suspension of work remains the reinstatement of the 1992 Constitution and its implications. It comes back to us that when the debate on this point was initiated, the representatives of the government party all kicked in touch. For them, the candidacy of Faure Gnassingbé in 2020 should not be linked to the discussions.
Despite the total decadence noted in the current governance of the country, Faure Gnassingbé remains according to Charles Kondo Agba, Christian Trimua, Gilbert Bawara and others, the man of the situation. Despite his desire to bring the talks to a successful conclusion, the Ghanaian president had to suspend the work, in his own way.
The pitfalls of a multi-time dialogue
Beyond the will of the power to block the dialogue to head down to the famous referendum, it still appears several gray areas. At the opening of the works, it was announced that the work will take place over 10 days. In the understanding of several actors, it is therefore from 19 to 28 February to do the 10 days. But barely open, the work had a break of 72 hours. Barely resumed on February 23, we learn a suspension of two weeks. There, he murmurs that this is due to the agenda of the facilitator who must travel to the United States of America until March 5 and March 6 marks the festivities of the Independence of Ghana.
On this one, we can ask ourselves questions. What did the preparatory work do? Nana Akufo-Addo does not he control his agenda before announcing the dialogue for 10 days? We remember that some Ghanaians do not conceive that their president can desert their country to go to Togo all the time. Indiscretions argue that Nana Akufo-Addo would be obliged if the debates continue to skate, to move the protagonists on Accra.
Above all, since the opposition's protests are suspended for the duration of the dialogue, we can witness the demobilization. Since at the pace that things are going, the discussions can last several months and lead to nothing at all.
It is therefore important for the protagonists to assess the risks associated with the current impasse in the country. No investor can come to do business in a country in crisis.
The opposition Coalition must also recognize that a tuneful dialogue only helps the bad regime that has plagued the country for 51 years.
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