Adjamagbo-Johnson rejects appointment to women parliamentarians’ caucus
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on 24 Heure Info
Togolese MP Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson rejects the position of second vice-president of the Caucus of Women Parliamentarians, saying she was not consulted. In a statement published after the 28 October general assembly, she also challenges the body’s functioning and its silence over several detentions, 24 Heure Info reports.
Togolese MP Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson rejects the position of second vice-president of the new bureau of the Caucus of Women Parliamentarians of Togo. She says she was neither consulted nor informed of the appointment, which she discovered on social media and the Caucus’s communications platform, according to 24 Heure Info.
The CDPA parliamentarian is demanding the immediate removal of her name and says she will hold no position within the body. She also criticises the Caucus for its silence over the arrests and detentions of several Togolese women, notably Marguerite Gnakadé, former defence minister, Leyla Mehiouwa Nambea-Tagba, Amavi Katanga, Grâce Bikoni Koumayi, Dora Dougbedji and Chimène Akouvi Apevon, according to 24 Heure Info.
Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson believes that an organisation committed to women’s rights must respond to violations of individual freedoms. She denounces an appointment made without consent, which she considers contrary to her democratic principles and incompatible with her political and feminist commitment, according to the Togolese media.
