Senegalese MP Guy Marius Sagna attacked in Lomé during a trip to Togo. Before the incident, the Dynamique pour la Majorité du Peuple (DPM) published a press release accusing the power in place in Togo of attempting maneuvers aimed at sabotaging the meeting of the Senegalese MP. The DPM had expressed concerns about the government’s intentions, insinuating that efforts were being made to disrupt the event in which Guy Sagna was participating.
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The Honorable Guy Marius Sagna, member of the ECOWAS parliament, is staying in Lomé to participate in the 3rd extraordinary session. He expressed the wish to meet Togolese citizens, who are also his constituents as a community deputy, in order to discuss with them and better understand their concerns. To this end, the DMP deputy, Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson, invited the Togolese populations to a meeting initially planned in the Mgr Cessou meeting room of the Saint Augustin d’Amoutivé Parish, on Sunday September 29. While the room was already reserved and paid for, on Friday September 27, the secretariat of the said parish, probably subject to pressure from the regime, informed the collaborators of MP Adjamagbo-Johnson by telephone that this room was no longer available and offered to refund the rental amount.
In consultation with the honorable Sagna, it was decided to move the meeting to the CDPA headquarters, and information regarding the change of venue began to be disseminated on the same day. However, on the afternoon of September 27, the honorable Sagna was summoned by the office of the community parliament, which announced to him that the Minister of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Customary Chieftaincy of Togo had informed him by letter informing him that the deputy Guy Marius Sagna was going to participate in a public meeting prohibited under the provisions in force in Togo.
It should be noted that MP Adjamagbo-Johnson, who legally enjoys the right to meet her constituents without prior authorization, had, like her colleagues from the majority, already organized public meetings with the populations during the month of August. in Atakpamé, Kpalimé, Notsé and Lomé, without any reaction from the minister.
Furthermore, the minister did not notify MP Adjamagbo-Johnson of any ban concerning the meeting scheduled for September 29.
It appears from the above that, in the absence of valid legal arguments, the government is attempting a maneuver to disrupt this meeting long awaited by Togolese citizens.
The DMP calls national, regional and international public opinion to witness the maneuvers that undermine the right of two elected officials, one national and the other community, to meet the populations from whom they derive their legitimacy and to whom they are indebted.
Done in Lomé, September 28, 2024
The Conference of Presidents
