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The Coup

The military led by Emmanuel Bodjolle and Étienne Eyadéma met and agreed to remove Olympio from office. The coup began in the early morning hours of 13 January 1963 with shooting heard throughout the capital city of Lomé as the military attempted to arrest Olympio and his cabinet.

[13] Just before dawn, shots were heard outside of the United States Embassy which was close to the residence of Olympio. With the light of dawn, the dead body of Olympio was found three feet from the gate at the front of the embassy by the U.S. Ambassador Leon B. Poullada.

[13] It was claimed that when the soldiers attempted to arrest him in the streets of Lomé, he resisted and was shot in the process.[17] Eyadéma claimed later that he was the one who pulled the trigger killing Olympio, but this is not clearly established.
[19] His body was taken inside the embassy and later picked up by his family.[13]

During the coup, most of his cabinet were arrested but the interior minister and information minister were able to escape to the Republic of Dahomey and the health minister, Jerson Kprochtra, who was a member of Grunitzky's party, was not arrested.[13]

The reasons given for the coup by the military leaders in a radio broadcast were economic problems and a failing economy.
However, analysts often contend that the main roots of the coup were in the disgruntled ex-French soldiers who were unable to gain employment because Olympio kept the military small.[20][17]
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