Kokou Biossey Tozoun is a

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

lese politician who was Minister of Justice from 2007 to March 2011.

Career

After serving as Minister of the Civil Service, Work and Employment,List of members of the Togolese government
(2005 archive page), presse-francophone.org . Tozoun was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in the government named on July 29, 2003. He was Foreign Minister for two years before being appointed as Minister of Communication and Civic Education in the government named on June 20, 2005. At the 2006 Inter-Togolese Dialogue, Tozoun signed the Global Political Accord on the electoral process on behalf of the government on August 20, 2006. He was dismissed from the government in September 2006, when a national unity government was formed. Tozoun served as Rapporteur of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) at the time of the October 2007 parliamentary election. Following the election, he was appointed Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Komlan Mally, named on December 13, 2007. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) from

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as of the party's Ninth Ordinary Congress in December 2006. When the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

unanimously voted to abolish the

death penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

in June 2009, Tozoun described it as "the best decision that we took in this year"."Togo abolishes the death penalty"
BBC News, 24 June 2009.

References

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