The recent assault on National Independent
Election Committee (CENI) member Andre Kuevi was widely commented
by the Togolese press this week.
Intimating that the electoral process was off to a wrong start,
the pro-opposition Carrefour spoke of renewed political violence
at a time when the election schedule was being drawn.
Another pro-opposition paper, Crocodile, observed that "no sooner
had the elections been announced than attacks against opposition
leaders resumed."
Recalling recent attacks on opposition leaders and activists, the
paper affirmed that "the authorities might be accused of abetting
such crimes since they are reluctant in carrying out real
investigations to arrest the perpetrators."
For its part, the pro-government Echos d'Afrique focused but on
the Head of State's intervention to get key figures join in
national reconciliatory talks underway in Cote d'Ivoire.
"The Head of State has shown the whole world that he is a
monument for Africa because it took him just three hours to
convince Robert Guei, the intransigent and inflexible Ivorian
figure, to take part in the forum," the paper stated.
In the same vein, another pro-governmental paper, La Matinée,
said the Ivorian political class did not hesitate to turn to
Eyadema's expertise, given "his important role as a credible
interlocutor and his capacity as the elder of the African
presidents."
