(independantexpress.net)
The overzealousness of UNIR party cadres continues to surprise Togolese people. The media outings of some ministers of the current government are becoming real scandals and tarnish the image of the country.
From Yark Damehane's unrealistic statements on the driver's license to Boukpéssi's ironic comments about restricting protests to Gilbert Bawara's exaggerated qualifications for their champion, the incongruities are not drying up from the mouths of these power-lees.
The star who is making the front page now is the Minister of Human Rights and Relations with the Institutions of the Republic, Christian TRIMUA.
The minister's comments in 2017, following the crackdown on protests and the loss of life that this caused, had caused many Togolese hearts to bleed. Trimua's repetitive outings to zealously defend his champion Faure Gnassingbé, at the risk of sounding ridiculous, become a second function for him.
Speaking on the constitutional reform that had been conceived and designed in favour of President Faure, the Minister of Human Rights declared that this was the key to ending the ongoing political crisis in the country.
These are highly contradictory, since this same reform was at the origin of the many opposition challenges.
Driven by this disproportionate zeal, he asserted on an international channel that Faure inherited feverish institutions and an economy at half-mast, attributing to him the progress that has been observed in recent years; such statements suggest that the father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, whose champion derives all his legitimacy, did not build anything during more than three decades of rule. So he left a country in tatters.
Even more distressing, Christian TRIMUA's assertions on the issue of not disbursing the state's contribution to the presidential campaign.
Asked about the problem, he said he hoped the fund would be disbursed before the end of the campaign. He said, "Naturally, we are asking the government to do everything possible so that we can also get back into our funds." Ironic comments that make it seem that he is an observer of the situation addressing the government, even though he is a member of that government.
In recent weeks, theman who bears the heavy burden of the murders of the young girls of Agoé in Lomé has become the superstar of gaffes on social networks and on international channels.
We still remember, he was the one who waged a merciless war against human rights organizations by calling them all the names of birds and threatening to suspend it in one situation or another.
It was he who asked the opposition to go and get the weapons to come and fight the system in place. All-out zeal of Christian Trimua that history awaits to be accountable to him. He will not be the first or the last to be tuttuated by history in the years to come.
And it will be up to the Togolese to defend it. It is up to these human rights organizations to fly to his aid, it is up to these opposition leaders to help him claim his rights. In the worst case scenario, he will stand up, as now Agbéyomé Kodjo, after causing harm to Togolese. We will ask to forget his past, however sulphurous it may be. Because he has become an opponent. And you'll be there.
But for now, it is clear that these beautiful speakers, like Christian TRIMUA still have good days ahead of them. They will continue to provoke and taunt. But for how much longer…?
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