Volta secession group: 20 more members arrested

Twenty members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), a group based in Ho in the Volta Region agitating for the restoration of so-called Western Togoland as an independent state from Ghana have been arrested.

They were arrested on suspicion that they still plan to declare their so called independence on Thursday despite arrest of their leaders.

In an interview with Accra based Starr FM on Tuesday, a member of the group, Mr Forster Agbormenya said that their members who have been picked up have been sent to the Volta regional Police command.

The Chairman of the HSGF, Mr. Charles Kormi Kudzodzi, alias Papavi Hogbedetor and eight others championing the independence of the Volta Region were said to have been picked on Sunday evening by a combined team of armed police and military personnel in Ho on Sunday and airlifted to Accra.

A police statement on the arrest said: “Activities of the group also include illegally recruiting and training young people in a “militia style” for them to form the core of their supposed country’s armed forces and police force.”

In July 2017, the leadership of the group was arrested for allegedly inciting people to push for the independence of the Volta region so it becomes a country on its own. They were released on bail.