With our correspondent in Libreville, Yves-Laurent Goma
Officially, the Gabonese authorities remain silent on the stay in the country of Kpatcha Gnassingbé. However, a few sources claimed that Mr. Gnassingbé did indeed arrive in Gabon last week. He arrived for treatment, but these same sources do not specify the hospital or clinic that received the patient. They also do not specify the duration of the stay, nor the legal status of Mr. Gnassingbé.
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Another source, very high up in the Gabonese administration, affirmed that Libreville wants to take advantage of this medical stay for Kpatcha Gnassingbé to begin mediation with his brother, Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé. « Fourteen years following the alleged coup attempt for which Kpatcha Gnassingbé was thrown in prison, it is time to begin a reconciliation “, supported our source.
Gabonese President Ali Bongo would, in person, be willing to play a key role in this process of normalization between the two sons of former Togolese President Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadema. Ali Bongo and Faure Gnassingbé have excellent relations. The Togolese number one came to Libreville ten times in three years. Ali Bongo gave him the lift last December and it would be during this trip that the transfer of Kpatcha to Libreville would have been decided.
For Me Claude Kokou Amegan, president of the Cacit (Collective of associations once morest impunity in Togo), the Togolese are entitled to know what the contours of this transfer are. ” We have the impression that everything can be done at the will of the authorities,” he said.
Me Claude Kokou Amegan, president of the Cacit
