THE MATTER OF LEHADY VINAGNON SOGLO V. REPUBLIC OF BENIN APPLICATION No. 011/2021

Abstract

It emerges from the Application that the Applicant was elected Mayor of Cotonou Municipality in August 2015. On 28 July 2017, he was summoned by the Consultative and Coordination Council of the Littoral Region hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) chaired by the Prefect of the Littoral Region for a hearing on the management of the said municipality. The Applicant avers that on the same day, after the said hearing, he was suspended as mayor by an order of 28 July 20172 issued by the Respondent State’s Minister of Decentralisation (hereinafter referred to as “Suspension order of 28 July 2017”), which was notified to him. Subsequently, he was dismissed from office by Decree No. 2017-380 of 2 August 2017 (hereinafter referred to as “Dismissal Decree of 2 August 2017”).