After the misadventure of the Opposition deputies, it is the turn of former President Nicéphore Soglo to be rejected at the gates of the civil prison of Apro-Missérété yesterday, Sunday May 12, 2024. While he had gone to visit the Opponent in prison, Reckya Madougou, the Soglo patriarch, former head of state, was prohibited from entering without the presentation of a “visit permit”.
In her cri de coeur published recently, former Minister of Justice Reckya Madougou, Opponent detained at the Missérété civil prison, denounced the non-respect of her right to visits, without discrimination, as is the case for other detainees. She had broken the silence on these conditions of detention, after the forbidden visit of a group of deputies from the Opposition to the Talon regime. In the wake of the outcry caused by this movement of deputies from the Democratic party, a judicial authority indicated that the concern was inherent in the number of deputies and that individually, the problem did not arise. Only here, yesterday Sunday May 12, 2024, this time, it is the patriarch, President Nicéphore Soglo who, also, was sent back to the civil prison of Missérété, prevented from seeing Minister Reckya Madougou. Even though no text prohibits it and the other detainees receive visits, Nicéphore Soglo was asked for a visit permit before seeing Reckya Madougou. According to information reported by the online media Crystal News, the former head of state tried to contact the Special Prosecutor at La Criet on site, but in vain. He had no choice but to turn back.
That it happens like this with the person of Nicéphore Soglo surprises more than one person. For these Beninese, that President Soglo is turned back to the gate of the Missérété prison, without even being authorized to enter there as a courtesy before being notified of his rejection, does not honor the country of Benin. . This high personality nevertheless exercised the highest functions of the State in Benin only to be dismissed like a common individual, without legal reason because the visit permit in question is based on an obsolete decree of 1975, declared contrary to the Constitution in 2023. The good proof is that it does not apply to other prisoners. Hence the permanent discrimination that Reckya Madougou complains about.
M.M
Free Morning