Rather than use force and intimidation to deal with the three secessionists belonging to a group calling itself Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), the state must use dialogue to address this matter, Senyo Hosi, Chief Executive Officer of Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs), has said.
According to him, the action of the group is a reflection of the mentality of some people from the Volta Region, including many youth, hence the need to dialogue with them to purge them of that mindset.
He said this during a discussion on the renewed demand by the group to secede and declare the independence of the Volta Region and parts of the Northern and Upper East regions – which it calls on Western Togoland – from mainland Ghana on May 9, 2017. Speaking on TV3’s New Day on Saturday 11 March, Mr Hosi said: “The mentality of the people will have to be worked on.
“It is for the state to meet with them, that is political wisdom. If you think that you are going to use brutality and force, it will not be.
“I don’t know this 93-year-old man and those other two people, but I can tell you for a fact that this matter transcends these. It is for the state and its entire apparatus to identify the leaders of the entire region and this by virtue with chiefs, meet with them, and have discourse with them, call them and say you are hearing these things, and discourse with them.”
Meanwhile, the police have dragged the three secessionists to the High Court and charged them with treason after a Ho Magistrate’s Court declined jurisdiction on the matter.
The Ho High Court, presided over by His Lordship Charles N.A Agbevor, admitted the group’s founder Charles Kormi Kudjordji and two others: Martin Asiamah Agbenu and Divine Odonkor, to a bail of GHS50,000 each, with two sureties to be justified.
The case has been adjourned to 14 March.
The group is clamouring for Western Togoland to be restored as an independent country from Ghana.
Its members circulated T-shirts on which were written 9th May is Our Day. They were arrested on Wednesday and charged.
“We haven’t committed any act of treason, not in the least,” Mr Kudzodzi told journalists after the hearing on Thursday.
Western Togoland, according to the group, was established as a country in 1922 and stretches from the Northern through the Upper East and Volta regions to the Gulf of Guinea.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
