To:
Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, 
Member of Parliament for the North Tongu 
Constituency in the Volta Region-Ghana
 
C/O Ghana Embassy In US
3512 International Dr NW, Washington, DC 20008
Phone:  (202)-686-4520
Fax:      (202)-686-4527

Object: About Your Proposal Of Mediation By President Nana Akufo Addo In Togolese Crisis, Thanks But No Thanks!

Honorable,

     As a Ranking member of Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and a MP for North Tongu, Volta Region (Ghana) you have called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to mediate in the political crisis overtaking Togo right now.

     I don’t want to call you a cynic since I ‘am giving you the benefit of the doubt and believing that you are making an honest mistake.
Togolese had been loud clear as the thunder. We want the Gnassingbé regime out! Do you have an idea how many dialogues, negotiations or mediations had taken place in Togo and the Gnassingbé father and son are still ruling the country with iron fist for the past 50 years? 
Do you know that when Gnassingbé father died in 2005 (after 38 years of iron rule), his son, the so-called current president massacred 1000 Togolese to seize power, power he and his cronies are using to siphon resources of the country and to line up their pockets with our money? Do you know that Faure Gnassingbé is serving a third term as president? How many terms is a president allowed to serve in Ghana and elsewhere?
We’re just tired of the vicious circle of negotiation/mediation-agreement and non-respect of the agreement by the regime-and negotiations again.

      The obnoxious role played by your former president John Mahama during the hold-up presidential election of 2015, election rigged as usual by Faure Gnassingbé is still fresh on our mind. John Mahama and the gang leader Allassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire came to Togo and had browbeaten the opposition leader Jean Pierre Fabre to accept the result of the fraudulent election. “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me,” such goes a popular saying.

      Right now, we don’t need help from anybody. We, the people of Togo had taken back the power and will soon get rid of the mafia leader Faure Gnassingbé. 
We don’t want any endless, protracted and labyrinth-like dialogue, negotiation, mediation (whatever you call it). We don’t want any smoke-screen-like negotiation anymore! 
To hell with super corrupted and international career politicians and so-called negotiators like Louis Michel, Ibn Chambas, Olesungun Obassandjo Ige Olatokumbe, Siaka Sangare and they like. They are always there to suck our blood and make money on our back while holding us down so the rogue government of the Gnassingbes can torture and kill us in order to easily plunder the resources of the country.

      Since Togo doesn’t have nuke to flash or terrorists to export, the International Community see nor hear no evil when Togolese are being gun down by the thousands for simply contesting the dictatorship which had taken Togo in its iron clads for the past 50 years.

       Ressources that are meant for the construction bridges, roads, schools, hospitals and social services are diverted toward international summit of this and regional summit of that, in a capital where there is not a single hospital which is on par with a regional hospital in Ghana!
We want our votes to count, and our voices hear this time! We will let no stone unturned and will stop at nothing to have our voice heard.  

      Honorable, what is going on in Togo now is a revolution. It will sweep anything in its way and get to destination no matter what!

To the Cloak-and-dagger and Svengali negotiators hovering over like vaulters ready to take their master piece of Togolese corrupted cake again, we are declaring them unemployed! They have no more business in Togo. We don't want them and do not need any mediation or negotiation. Faure Gnassingbe must go. This is our motto and it’s clear!

      We want the reinstatement of the 1992 Constitution with two Five-Year term limit to the president mandate, the right to vote extended to the Togolese Diaspora and the Two-Ballot voting system. It's a deal. It's not negotiable: take it or leave it. Honorable, do you think the above claims are luxury for Togolese?

      Honorable, for your information, I can’t stress enough that there is not a single functioning state-run hospital in Togo. The central one has become a giant slaughter house and a mortuary for the population. Do you care? In Togo, innocent people are rotting in jails for crime fabricated and planted on them (the torching of Lome and Kara Markets is one of many examples): does it mean anything to you? Togolese are dying by the hundreds because they cannot afford to buy aspirin. Do you have a heart?

Students, teachers, doctors, farmers protesting the banana republic and the unequal distribution of wealth are gunned down and killed by Faure Gnassingbe apparatus in a cold-blooded manner. Cheick the names Douti Sinanlengue and Amselme Sinandare and see how these students have been gun down at a demonstration for just asking for a better working conditions for their teachers so they can return to class rooms and teach. Check the uprising in Mango when farmers had been dislodged from their farming land without compensation. They come out to protest the government injustice and soldiers crashed them down and killed them, using their army tanks. No kidding, they used tanks to run over protesters. Does that sounds like a far west movie to you? At the same time, our so-called leaders are living a bling bling life style. They are not working for the money they flash. They are embezzling it, so says the lightheaded Faure Gnassingbe himself, not me. You can check it out. Do you hear or see evil? Do you know what it feels like to have to watch arm robbers parading with stolen money while taunting the people they steal from? 

      Honorable, I challenge you to do your homework on Togo. Go visit our two so-called universities, talk to the population and come back and tell Togolese to negotiate again with the scum of the earth called the Togolese regime!

The customized opposition leaders the bias International Community used to do business with have become irrelevant. I’m sure France, The Francophonie Israel, the ECOWAS, the AU, and the UN are working around the clock, getting ready to pull out a trick from their magic hat so they can save the moron Faure Gnassingbe and subjugate the population but this time they will hit a rock. The custom made, and straw opposition parties you guys do business with had been overpowered. We have new leader that is showing the way and is leading us to the finish line. We have our Moses that will lead us to cross the River Jordan and this time, it's real business. It’s not a Trojan Horse, nor is it a pipe and dream story. Be aware!

      There will be no more horse trading in the back of a smoke-filled room at the expense of Togolese and you guys should know that the cesspool of international corruption has dried out in Togo!

If Faure Gnassingbe still baits you with blood-tainted money of corruption and you people too are still falling prey to that dirty money, it's your own business!

Right now, we are not going to tolerate any distraction no matter where it comes from. We are watching over the revolution and will not let down guard until it's achieved!

Bear in mind that to say Faure Gnassingbe is not a president is an understatement.  He is a junior partner of imperialism, a puppet at the hand of the so called International Community and their stakeholders. This explains the fact that in a country where ordinary people are struggling just to storm the weather and make ends meet, the president is hosting fancy International summits, leaving the poor population to pick-up the eye-popping and Jaw-dropping tabs of these high jinks and these acts of self-aggrandizement. 

       Listen Honorable, It was into your face in Accra, in May 2015 that Faure Gnassingbe had ganged up with Yaya Jammeh of Gambia and torpedoed the project of the incorporation of the limitation of presidential term into the chart of ECOWAS. Do you know what that would have achieved? ECOWAS chart would have towered over the cooked constitution of Togo in order to allow a change at the summit of the state, even though the tailored constitution of 2003 had removed the term limit. What did you and the Ghanaian President who was at the time president of ECOWAS do to bring Faure Gnassingbe home to accepting the natural limitation of presidential mandate? It's too late now for any mediation! 
 It all set and bound to happen. Faure Gnassingbe is a goner! It's only a matter of time before he crosses your border. For Togolese, it will be a good riddance and a heavy weight off our shoulders. Prepare to welcome him!

        In case I ‘am not clear enough, please check the song entitled: “We’re not gonna take it, we’re not gonna take it anymore” by the Twisted Sisters. This revolution song says it all. As per courtesy of me, I’m putting out a few lines here for you to meditate. Anytime you listen to this song, know that we the people of Togo are saying the International Community and mediators: “Hands Up and Hands Off!”

Yours respectfully,

Koffi Apati-Bassah
New-York City