“What’s dishonorable isn’t mendacity, however being caught within the act of mendacity. Some persons are clumsy with lies: these individuals needs to be introduced into the reality and forbidden to depart from it. » (Etienne Rey, French playwright and literary critic, born in 1879)
In Togo, individuals proceed to undergo at each degree. As if all this struggling attributable to predatory rule isn’t sufficient, our so-called leaders who suppose they’re the gods of the earth proceed to emphasise this every single day and additional humiliate these Togolese individuals. Ask for a peaceable life. A couple of weeks in the past, we questioned in an article what drives Faure Gnassingbé and his overseas minister, Robert Ducey, to insist on enjoying “Père Pierre” overseas, thereby ignoring the duties for which they’re primarily accountable main home points. Sure, nobody understands why Faure Gnassingbé, regardless of being opposed by the overwhelming majority of Togolese, selected to hit the wall and refuse to see the tragic actuality that our nation constitutes in the present day.
The Germans would say “Vogel-Strauß-Politik”; sure, it’s a coverage of burying one’s head within the sand, a cowardly and egoist technique that’s adopted in the present day by the de facto president of Togo with the assistance of the overseas minister technique. Not content material with insulting and humiliating Togolese when Mr. Robert Ducey delivered a speech on the United Nations final September that was fully inconsistent with the tragic actuality of the inhumane governance of the Gnassingbé regime to which he belongs, Mr. Robert Ducey continued to browse Africa to be extra exact In different phrases, it’s the Sahel area. They’re the godfathers of the three army juntas of Mali, Burkina Faso, and particularly Niger. The thought of hostility in the direction of the three sister international locations talked about above is way away from us. But when the Togolese regime actually respects its personal individuals, shouldn’t it clear up their issues first? Or is efficiency politics now a part of the Togolese authorities’s agenda round Faure Gnassingbé? Along with the unsure political scenario after the army coups in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, we don’t suppose that the socio-political scenario in our nation, Togo, is essentially the most enviable after greater than half a century of army household dictatorship. Fairly the alternative. Subsequently, to refuse to just accept the drama of Togo within the face of an answer that’s courageous sufficient and to proceed to fake that Togo is a democracy and a paradise on earth at a political degree is irresponsible, evil and contemptuous of the Togolese individuals.
Internet hosting a delegation from Niger’s army junta, led by the Minister of Protection, in Lome on November 6, 2023, Faure Gnassingbé as soon as once more had the chance to create the phantasm that he was changing into essential, particularly for the present new authorities in Niger. Phrase. They look like in a determined scenario attributable to issues with some ECOWAS leaders. Most significantly, it as soon as once more gives a platform for Robert Ducey, Togo’s presidentially appointed messenger, to shamelessly try to twist the reality within the hope of deceiving the Togolese individuals and remaining in energy. Certainly, simply as a number of months in the past at a United Nations discussion board, Togolese Overseas Minister Robert Ducey uttered these phrases, which ought to trigger a scandal amongst any clever Togolese who loves his nation and is stuffed with disgrace , as a result of it’s about lies from starting to finish and above all contempt: «Togo at all times stands on the facet of peace and opposes any seizure of energy and coup by pressure.…» Mr. Robert Doucet is aware of full nicely that the political energy he enjoys in the present day is constructed on the blood of Togolese women and men and is, above all, the results of successive coups and electoral manipulation. Everybody is aware of how Faure Gnassingbé got here to energy in 2005 after the dying of his father Éyadéma.
In keeping with a number of stories from nationwide and worldwide human rights organizations, a whole bunch of Togolese have been massacred and a number of other others mutilated for all times. So as to permit Faure Gnassingbé, who was imposed by pressure on the Togolese, to stay in energy, all subsequent elections, whether or not presidential or in any other case, organized by corporatized and corrupt establishments, have been every crammed with assaults in opposition to opposition candidates. Violence and violence.
This want to deceive and impose on the individuals by pressure in any respect prices, as a result of one facet has a clan military educated to kill, is known as a “coup” and seizing energy by pressure. Dozens of political prisoners, together with Faure Gnassingbé’s half-brother, have been held for years for expressing their opinions, together with a nursing girl who was separated from her child, and we ‘s “chief mediator” refused to launch them. Political exiles, together with a bishop over 94 years previous, wander all over the world. So why did Robert Ducey inform a lie despite the fact that he knew it was a lie? Why does he deal with Togolese as idiots?
In conclusion, the questions that come up in the present day embrace understanding whether or not the army forces in energy in Bamako, Ouagadougou and in the present day Niamey know who Faure Gnassingbé is and what he means to Togolese by way of political governance, democracy and human rights abuses What has he been doing since he got here to energy? For the three army governments, they’ll attempt to seize any department so long as they’ll escape the precarious political scenario. However do they know that Togo’s socio-political scenario can be precarious? Is the Togolese head of state operating for workplace in his nation the fitting particular person for them? Is Fornassingbé nonetheless on good phrases with distinguished ECOWAS heavyweights, allegedly engaged in some type of mediation? These are among the questions indignant Togolese requested themselves in the present day as they condemned army leaders within the Sahel for his or her weird conduct in whitewashing and purging a dictator blamed for Togo’s poor governance The injury completed is now not unsure, they usually need his ouster. Persevering with to behave on this method whereas additionally figuring out with “Pan-Africanism” which presupposes a sure diploma of solidarity with individuals beneath dictatorships equivalent to Togo isn’t understood by nearly all of Togolese residents .
Samari Chachobo
Germany
