at long last, the election at our neighbouring country - togo has ended. well, most people claimed it was peaceful and others the contrary.
what bothers my mind is, was the election truely peaceful and free-and-fair? there were reports of the members in the opposition stronghold, who could not find their names in the electoral register. but, was there review of the electoral register at all? were the electorates given the opportunity to cross check if their names were in the electoral register before the election?
can we not conclude that the military just wanted the so-called election to be done, though they already know who the winner is, just to please the international pressure groups? the genesis of the whole show begun when they hastily installed the son of eyadema (after his father's death) as the president of the land, when that should not have been the case. well, i belief this forms the basis of an argument that the election was not free-and-fair.
all over africa, there are cries of election ridging, but, when shall we ever have a free and fair election one day? i pray mr. gnasigbe (jnr eyadema) would not root to the presidential sit till death do separate them as it was in the case of the father.
or, should we call on george bush to interven and set the people of togo free as he did to the people of iraq? oh god, safe our land -africa!