Togo: Mgr Kpodzro and Gabriel Agbéyomé Kodjo confined to home

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The call to demonstrate of Bishop Philippe Kpodzro Friday in Lomé was suppressed, he and his candidate Gabriel Agbéyomé Kodjo having been confined to their homes all day. The houses were crisscrossed, the exits blocked and the demonstrators prevented from gathering.

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With our correspondent in Lomé, Peter Sassou Dogbé

All day Mgr Philippe Kpodzro and Gabriel Agbéyomé Kodjo remained confined to their homes. But Mgr Kpodzro was able to go out to protest to the delegation of the European Union.

When he left, he told us: “ I am coming to complain so that we can restore order. If they did that, it was precisely to prevent me from presiding over the gathering that I convened for this evening in the "Bas-Fond" of Saint-Joseph college. "

The prelate wanted to do the same thing at the American embassy but found himself in front of a closed door before being forced by the gendarmes to return home, thus preventing him from going to the rally on the ground of the Bas-Fond.

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According to the brigadier general, Yark Damehame, Minister of Security, this device set up around the homes of the two personalities was for their safety.

Those who tried to assemble in the vicinity of Saint-Joseph College were subjected to tear gas and baton blows. They were recalcitrant who tried to rally, said the Minister of Security, they were just pushed back and calm returned in the evening, concluded the Minister.

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