Iron ore discovered in Oti Region belongs to us – Western Togolanders

Subject: Press Statement

To All Media Houses

PRESS
STATEMENT BY THE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION COUNCIL (PLC) OF WESTERN TOGOLAND
ON THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA’S ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE DISCOVERY OF IRON ORE
IN THE OTI REGION.

Warm Regards, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press.

The attention of the People’s Liberation Council (PLC) of Western Togoland
has been drawn to some publications making rounds on various media
platforms which the Council has sighted on the announcement of the
government of Ghana on the purported discovery of IRON ORE in commercial
quantities in the Oti region and the government’s move to leverage on
Ghana’s LITHIUM deposits to start manufacturing batteries locally for
which the PLC wishes to react accordingly as follows:

1.
First of all we wish to state that there’s nothing like Oti region
where the so-called discovery was said to have been made. That territory
does not belong to the Gold Coast or the republic of Ghana but is a
bonafide territory of Western Togoland, and therefore Ghana has no
business whatsoever to trespass into that territory. Indeed the people
of Western Togoland have long been aware of the deposits of iron ore in
commercial quantities in that portion of their territory and so this
announcement by the republic of Ghana about the discovery of the
minerals was nothing new to the people of Western Togoland.

2.
Indeed the UN charter on Trust Territories forbids the exploitation of
mineral deposits by Ghana in Western Togoland (See the UN charter on
Trust Territories below) and as there is no formal agreement between
the two nations since the Union which should have addressed these issues
was never established, there could never have been any grounds upon
which Ghana should be exploiting mineral deposits in Western Togoland
leading to this so-called discovery. This action by the government of
Ghana should be condemned in no uncertain terms by the international
community and Ghana must be cautioned to refrain from any such exploits
going forward.

3. That the LITHIUM which Ghana
hopes to mine as raw material for the manufacture of batteries locally
is also deposited in commercial quantities under the Adaklu mountain a
territory also in Western Togoland which also Ghana is forbidden by
international statutes from exploiting.

4. The
impunity with which Ghana has over the years handled the Western
Togoland problem is giving birth to the second school of thought. Before
the invasion of the colonial imperialists subsequently resulting in the
annexation of Western Togoland to the Gold Coast or Ghana after Britain
and her Collaborators in the UN used some Machiavellian antics to
achieve their diabolical plans. This second school which is not the
position of the PLC, They believe that the people of Western Togoland
are tired of being treated as second-class citizens in their own nation
by the government of Ghana. They also believe that these artificial
barriers erected by Britain and France to separate the two TOGOLANDS
should be removed so they can dwell together in unity and peace for
accelerated development of their nations if Ghana continually refuses to
implement the Union the people of Western Togoland voted for in the May
9, 1956 plebiscite.

A case in point was that of Eastern and
Western Germany which were separated by the Berlin wall also known as
the iron curtain during world war II. The people have realised the folly
of this wall that separated them, pulled it down and united for a
common national agenda and the rest is history.

We conclude by
passionately appealing to any investors both local and foreign who may
want to enter into any agreement with the government of Ghana for the
mining of any natural resources under the earth in Western Togoland to
tread cautiously as Ghana has no agreement with Western Togoland to that
effect.

Until Ghana takes the necessary democratic and
constitutional steps to implement the Union between the two nations
Ghana and Western Togoland so as to come to an agreement on the way
forward any such investment will be null and void and at the Investor’s
own risk. Thank you for your usual cooperation and attention. God bless
us all.

Please find links to the TOGOLAND Trusteeship Agreement Here:

Long live Western Togoland,

Long live Ghana,

Long Live Ghana and Western Togoland Union.