Tension as opposition tries to end Gnassingbe’s 53-year-rule in Togo

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe is all but certain to win a fourth term at the ballot on Saturday and has changed the constitution to allow himself potentially to stay in charge until 2030.As the D-day approaches, Sokode, the second-largest city in Togo, is still under lockdown with more than ten people killed lately in wild protest demanding that the 53-year-old leader, who took over power in 2005 after the death of his father, leave office.

Trucks filled with armed soldiers continually patrol the main streets and residents complain of searches in their homes, beatings on their streets and a nightly curfew.The neighbourhood of Kpalo-Kpalo, one of the former strongholds of the opposition Panafrican National Party, was surrounded by troops.

Activists from the party, which drew a lot of support from the mainly Muslim Tem ethnic group, said a ruthless crackdown by security forces means they can now only meet in secret.Gnasssingbe promised to create 500,000 jobs across the country by 2022 to ease the frustrations of a large number of unemployed youths in the country.

But after 53 years of his family’s rule, the signs of neglect and stunted development are evident to see around Sokode.

African leaders are mostly encoded with the sit tight power drunk Gene. They are ready to die holding onto power as rulers in the guise of leadership. I wonder when they will shift their mind away from this mental sickness and be good and examplary leaders as Nelson Mandela.

African leaders and their shitty entitlement to power, despite years of stagnated progress due to misrule, is what is keeping this continent in the state of backwardness it finds itself.

Sit tight syndrome killing African leaders

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