For the first time in the history of the Gnassingbe clan, a semblance of homage was returned to the father of the nation and independence, Sylvanus Olympio. It was during the anniversary celebration of the independence of Togo. But if the engagement of the US Embassy in Togo allowed to relive the course of the man, nothing was said about the reasons of his assassination. Of the two letters dating from November 1962 and January 1963 give certain tracks on those who would not have interest to see Syvanus Olympio alive, France. Because in the background, there is monetary sovereignty.
Political sovereignty without sovereignty is a factitious independence. And on his accession to power, the first democratically elected president of Togo understood it. In order to get rid of the common currency of Francophone African countries, Sylvanus Olympio undertook to involve the metropolis in its legitimate ambition to endow Togo with a currency. It was his fatal mistake.
Already in November 1962 a letter from the French Ministry of Cooperation was addressed to Hospice Coco, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of the Togolese Republic, in response to a request for revision of certain articles of a draft Convention relating to Relations between the French Treasury and the Togolese Treasury. In other words, the government of Sylvanus Olympio had nothing to hide from its project of monetary independence. But the last straw was the "suicidal letter" that Minister Hospice Coco had formulated for the attention of France via Ambassador Joachim Hunlede. It was January 10, 1963. But the continuation of the events suggests that the minister never had time to implement his program which should take him to France on January 20 and then to Germany on Tuesday, January 22 .
The government of Togo had sent a list of all that it needed to France, to strike its own currency. Sacrilege! Three days later, President Sylvanus Olympio, who had put everything in place to give Togo a coin, was coldly defeated by a French soldier based in Sokode and who had escaped to the capital to do the necessary work
Conclusion, the Central Bank of Togo will never take shape on the one hand, and the notes of 5,000 F, 1,000 F, 500 F and 100 F will never be hit; As well as 50 F pieces of pure nickel, 10 F and 5 F of copper-nickel, as well as aluminum parts of 2 F and 1 F. Up to now. Who said that the question of monetary sovereignty is a subsidiary question? The first president of Togo paid him with his life. But of this, there was no question during the feast of independence. Question too sensitive. And if the French president, François Hollande has not decided to return this sovereignty to the countries of the two franc zones, is to say the oxygen represented by the fixed fixing of the CFA franc to the euro, through France. The stakes are vital, regardless of those of the blind Africans who believe in the French bailiff. No interest, no action. "France has no friends, it has only interests," said Nicolas Sarkozy.
Political sovereignty without sovereignty is a factitious independence. And on his accession to power, the first democratically elected president of Togo understood it. In order to get rid of the common currency of Francophone African countries, Sylvanus Olympio undertook to involve the metropolis in its legitimate ambition to endow Togo with a currency. It was his fatal mistake.
Already in November 1962 a letter from the French Ministry of Cooperation was addressed to Hospice Coco, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of the Togolese Republic, in response to a request for revision of certain articles of a draft Convention relating to Relations between the French Treasury and the Togolese Treasury. In other words, the government of Sylvanus Olympio had nothing to hide from its project of monetary independence. But the last straw was the "suicidal letter" that Minister Hospice Coco had formulated for the attention of France via Ambassador Joachim Hunlede. It was January 10, 1963. But the continuation of the events suggests that the minister never had time to implement his program which should take him to France on January 20 and then to Germany on Tuesday, January 22 .
The government of Togo had sent a list of all that it needed to France, to strike its own currency. Sacrilege! Three days later, President Sylvanus Olympio, who had put everything in place to give Togo a coin, was coldly defeated by a French soldier based in Sokode and who had escaped to the capital to do the necessary work
Conclusion, the Central Bank of Togo will never take shape on the one hand, and the notes of 5,000 F, 1,000 F, 500 F and 100 F will never be hit; As well as 50 F pieces of pure nickel, 10 F and 5 F of copper-nickel, as well as aluminum parts of 2 F and 1 F. Up to now. Who said that the question of monetary sovereignty is a subsidiary question? The first president of Togo paid him with his life. But of this, there was no question during the feast of independence. Question too sensitive. And if the French president, François Hollande has not decided to return this sovereignty to the countries of the two franc zones, is to say the oxygen represented by the fixed fixing of the CFA franc to the euro, through France. The stakes are vital, regardless of those of the blind Africans who believe in the French bailiff. No interest, no action. "France has no friends, it has only interests," said Nicolas Sarkozy.
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