Togo: opponent Gabriel Agbéyomé Kodjo remains in police custody

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Arriving second during the presidential election of February 22, Gabriel Agbéyomé Kodjo still claims victory. After the lifting of his parliamentary immunity in mid-March, he was arrested at his home last Tuesday. The opponent spent his third night on the premises of the central intelligence and criminal investigation service while the hearing of witnesses continued.

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With our correspondent in Lomé, Peter Dogbe

Seventy-two hours after his arrest, Gabriel Agbéyomé Kodjo is still in police custody according to the public prosecutor and the investigation is continuing .

Fulbert Sassou Attisso, the general coordinator of Kpodzro dynamics and Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson, his spokesperson, were heard as witnesses. They must return to the central information service this Friday, April 24 to sign the minutes.

Gabriel Agbéyomé Kodjo has just spent three nights in police custody, while calls for his release are coming from everywhere. Three churches, Protestant and Catholic, initiate a process with the aim of finding a way out of what now appears to be a political crisis.

This initiative seems to be badly accepted by the government. "  The comedy and the masquerade in which he was engaged, would leave indifferent if he had not taken criminal punishable acts  " affirms Gilbert Bawara, Minister of the public service who warns further that the government will not be drawn into these shenanigans or such a gear.

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