Togolese President's Brother, A Former Defense Minister,
Arrested For Coup Plot
African Regional News Updates
18 April 2009
Togolese security forces arrested
the president's brother yesterday on suspicion of
plotting to seize power while the head of state was
overseas, the country's government said.
President Faure Gnassingbe cancelled a trip to China
on Sunday after foreign security services warned him a
strike was imminent. Togo's public prosecutor later
said a planned attack on national security had been
foiled.
"Kpatcha Gnassingbe was arrested on Wednesday
(yesterday) morning in Lome on leaving the US embassy
where he had sought refuge," the government said.
Kpatcha, who is a member of parliament and a former
defence minister, was one of the chief conspirators in
a plot to seize power while the president was in
China, it said. Five army officers have been
questioned about the plot.
After soldiers attacked and raided Kpatcha's house on
Sunday night, the public prosecutor Robert Bakai said
some of Kpatacha's associates would also be
questioned.
Bakai said an investigation had begun, but gave no
details.
Faure Gnassingbe was elected leader of the world's
fourth biggest producer of phosphates in a violent and
flawed vote in 2005, taking over from his father who
had ruled the country with an iron first since seizing
power in 1967.
Since 2005, the former French colony - sandwiched
between Ghana and Benin - has begun to emerge from the
international wilderness after Gnassingbe Eyadema's
authoritarian rule. The next presidential elections
are scheduled for 2010.
The International Monetary Fund resumed lending last
year after a 14-year hiatus, and the European Union
restarted economic cooperation with Togo in 2007, also
for the first time in 14 years.
The Paris Club group of sovereign creditors cancelled
$22 million owed by Togo in January, adding to a $347m
write-off in June last year. - Reuters
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