A bail hearing in the case involving the 14 members of the Homeland Study Foundation who were arrested in the Kpando Municipality in the Volta Region for allegedly planning to secede from Ghana has been adjourned to Monday, June 15, 2020.
All 14 suspects were picked up at Kpando Aziavi last Saturday during an alleged crunch meeting in which they were discussing strategies to destabilize Ghana.
According to the military who effected the arrest, strategic documents intercepted from the meeting detailed a strategy for an uprising in the areas the group claims belong to the so-called Western Togoland.
But at the hearing today – Tuesday, June 2, 2020, the circuit court judge, Felix Datsomor asked the accused persons to remain in police custody until June 15 for a bail ruling.
The 14 were handed over to the Volta Regional Police Command on Saturday evening, pending investigations.
The group, led by Charles Kwame Kudzordi, an octogenarian, has undertaken several activities including the hoisting of the supposed flag of ‘Western Togoland’ in front of the Volta Regional Coordinating Council on the eve of Ghana’s independence day celebration this year.
Meanwhile, the military has also intensified its visibility in the region following what Major Jalal Din Ibrahim says is intelligence gathered on some planned activities of the group in the Volta Region.
The military assured that with the collaboration among the Police, BNI, and the Military, all the plans of the secessionist group will be foiled.
They first made calls for the secession in May 2019.
Leaders of the group have been training some youth to form the core of police and military activities in the supposed new country after the declaration of independence.
Clampdown on Western Togoland ‘militia group’ – Security analyst to gov’t
Meanwhile, a security analyst, Colonel Festus Aboagye Rtd. has said that activities of the group, could degenerate into an insurgency if urgent steps are not taken to halt the trend.
According to him, the trend of the group’s actions points to the fact that the group has a well-planned itinerary to execute which may destabilize the country.
Colonel Aboagye called on authorities to take caution from neighbouring countries who suffered similar tragedies.
“The idea that this is generating, is becoming serious and bearing in mind how we could end up where other countries are, should give great cause for concern. If any group of persons anywhere can assemble on the sovereign territory of Ghana and conduct training which could be about 8 weeks or more and graduate before national intelligence gets to know, there is any obvious case that there has been intelligence failure here,” he said.
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