Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), a group fighting for the independence of the Volta Region, has said it will secede and declare its independence on May 9, 2017.
The group said the event will be held to liberate the region, which used to be called Western Togoland, from Ghana.
Vice chairman of HSGF Mr G.Y Agrah argued at a consultative meeting held recently that the people from Western Togoland were “plebiscite citizens in Ghana”. For him, Western Togoland is just an add-on to the then Gold Coast now referred to as Ghana.
He said Western Togoland was a state on its own and not a territory of Ghana. It covers Bawku East district in the Upper East Region up to the Volta River to the Gulf of Guinea.
He said attaching it to Ghana was illegal and that the area needed to be decoupled from Ghana.
In all, 107 persons were in attendance at the consultative meeting with several chiefs from the Volta Region present to deliberate on how to pursue that agenda. The decision was made in Ho on Tuesday August 16.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
