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In the Togolese Republic, everyone has their own story of theft, looting and embezzlement. Everyone, especially those who, with impunity, go back and forth between a break from post-hijacking and a bantering return to business, to the chagrin of the citizens to the detriment of whom the hijackings are committed. This article tells the story of a pan dragged by the current President of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Ayassor Tchambakou is caught up in a $ 7 billion embezzlement case. A distant affair which resurfaces and reveals the not very shiny profile, prudish at the limit of the people called to reflect institutions as important as the CENI.
The facts date back to September 1996. On September 6, 1996, appointed Minister of Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Koffi Sama left the General Management of the Togolese Cotton Company, SOTOCO. He left more than $ 7 billion to his successor Ayassor Tchambakou, who is now appointed President of the CENI and therefore the one who will direct the process of the presidential election in 2020. When he took office, management turned sour. .
The box has been gutted. Ayassor was said to be multiplying huge expenses of enrichment, nepotism and dilapidation. With the Gnassingbé system, father and son, economic crime is not punished. It is enough to justify the diversions by the financing of the activities of the party in power or the budgeting actions in favor of the Head of State or his entourage, men as women and one benefits from the umbrella of protection of the power.
Ayassor succeeded in this plunder to drain the liabilities and assets of SOTOCO within 4 years of leadership. Arrested after a summary balance sheet revealed to be negative, he kneeled before the Head of State to confess his fault and ask for forgiveness…. With tears we were told of crocodiles. With Eyadéma, this was enough to be acquitted. He spent a few months of wintering before knowing Spring: propelled to the UEMOA, he directed, agricultural engineer of his state, the department of agriculture and food security.
The WAEMU commission happens to be visibly the pantheon of outcasts of the Togolese republic, steeped in embezzlement. Many take refuge there to erase the economic crimes committed in Togo. Admitted to ECOWAS retirement, Ayassor returns to the scene of the crime. He organized one of the most controversial elections in the Togolese republic: the 2019 local ones. He is still in charge of the 2020 presidential election, that of all the issues.
The credibility of the institutions of the Republic and the results left in the archives benefit the nation, if the characters who embodied these institutions are serious and honest. The financial scandal of $ 7 billion that stains the President of the CENI today should make it possible to understand the profile of the men who drive the political and economic history of Togo. Ayassor is not indicated to embody an election. Its place is elsewhere. As for SOTOCO, it remained undermined by embezzlement instilled by Tchabakou AYASSOR. The successions at the head of Togolese cotton, from Lekessime to Ewovor and from Djangni to Nanfame and the changes of title and names of SOTOCO never allowed SOTOCO to know serenity.
The current President of the CENI has infected Togolese cotton with the virus of corruption and embezzlement. He will continue to go unpunished until Jesus returns. This is Togo. On several occasions, we have tried to obtain additional information on this scandal from Mr. Ayassor Tchambakou, who has sparked an end of inadmissibility to our requests.
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Carlos Ketohou