Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou

Who is Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou?

Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou is a Togolese politician and business man,studied in Dakar-Senegal and received a degree in organizational management from Sheck Anta Diop University. After working for a number of pharmacies in Togo, he established a network of businesses in West-Africa as a merchant of high-tech goods,representing brands from Europe. He does Imports for himself as well as Imports for third parties. Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou founded World Aid for Children,Inc after a visit to the western region of Sudan in 1992."Sudan is no place for children. I saw many orphaned children hunted by heartless soldiers in civil war; if they escape,they roam the desert looking for something to eat. They are starving. It's easy to feel compassion for children in countries where catastrophes have isolated many people", says Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou.

As founder and CEO of World Aid for children,Inc, Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou has spent much of his career supporting,educating,serving and representing the needs of disadvantaged children. He serves to help disadvantaged children to become self-sufficient through educational and vocational training.

Complementary to his business network, Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou has an interest in politics. In 1990 he founded the Association of the Struggle against Unemployment. As Togo transitioned from single party rule to a multiparty system, Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou took part in the Sovereign National Conference held from July 8 to August 28, 1991, as head of the Association of the Struggle against Unemployment. After president Gnassigbe Eyadema's party, the Rally of the Togolese People, was banned by the transitional High Council of the Republic in November 1991, soldiers loyal to president Eyadema began a siege of Prime Minister of Togo, Joseph Kokou Koffigoh's residence.On December 3, 1991,soldiers succeeded in capturing the Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh in a heavy assault involving tanks and machine guns on his official residence. Many people were killed in this attack, and Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou went into exile in Dakar,Senegal because of this violence. Kodjo Amegnisso Tossou returned to Togo in April 1992 and founded the Togolese Labour Party. He has led the party since its foundation in May 1992. He has remained a strong critic of the regimes of Eyadema and his son Faure Gnassigbe.