Tag Archives: WESTERN TOGOLAND

Leader of the pro-separatists Homeland Study Group, Charles Kormi Kudzodzi a.k.a. Papavi has defended strongly his actions and quests to have a politically independent Western Togoland. The 88-year-old says reports that he was a fugitive on the run are false and propaganda against him. Speaking exclusively to TV3’s Komla Klutse, …

The High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Comfort K Tasiame has granted bail to two more persons out of the 26 standing trial for aligning themselves with a prohibited organization called Western Togoland Restoration Front. These two adds to the three who had earlier been granted bail on …

The Kaneshie District Court presided over by Rosemond Agyiri Doudua has discharged eleven accused persons involved in the Western Togoland case. Detective Inspector Richard Amoah told the court that the prosecution had received advice from the Attorney General’s office on the docket, indicating that there was not sufficient evidence against …

The State has re-arraigned the alleged separatists suspected of being behind last month’s violence in parts of the Volta Region only hours after they were discharged by Circuit Courts in Accra. Prosecutor ASP Sylvester Asare told the Circuit Court that the State withdrew the charges to enable it bring all …

Former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor has asked all political powers in the country to disown secessionists in the Volta Region describing their actions as a Coup d’état in sharp contrast against the provisions in of the Ghanaian constitution The Volta separatist group known as Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) has …

Security forces in Ghana have arrested 60 persons for their alleged involvement in a series of violent attacks –part of an orchestrated push by separatist groups to break away from the Volta Region. Fifty-four of the suspects have been remanded by a court, government officials said on Friday night adding …

Secessionist group calling itself Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF) didn’t only intend to block roads or burn tyres. They also had plans of kidnapping and blowing up of dams. Government has been accused of failing to gather intelligence on the recent secessionist resurgence. However, Information Minister said it was due …

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has disclosed that some Western Togoland separatists who sought the support of the overlord of the Dagbon Kindom Yaa-Naa Abubakari Mahama II were sacked from the Gbewaa Palace. Speaking in an interview with Kwame Nkrumah Tikese of Okay Fm, the MP …

The whole brouhaha about a separation and eventual creation of an independent nation, may have emerged as a result of cumulated feelings of marginalization by some sections of the Volta Region the Spokesperson to the King of the Anlo State, Togbi Sri III has suggested. Though Tobgi Kumassah maintains that …

The Volta Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Letsa, says the country’s security forces were aware of a series of planned attacks by Western Togoland Restoration Front, the separatist group seeking secession from Ghana. According to him, this separatist group, along with two others, had been under the radar of the Volta …