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General News on Thursday, June 6, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-06-06
Each accused received a deposit of 100,000 GH ¢.
The nine members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), the group that planned to separate the Volta region from the rest of Ghana, have now been released on bail by the High Court of India. Accra.
At Thursday's hearing, the court admitted seven members of the group and one soldier who allegedly helped their operations pay a deposit of 800,000 GH ¢.
Each accused was released on bail in the amount of 100,000 GH ¢, with two sureties, one to be justified.
Under the condition of bail, the so-called secessionists must also report to the police every Monday and Thursday.
The court also decided that the physical location of the accused and those who would be held must be verified by the investigator in charge of the case before the bond can be executed.
Those released on bail are Besa Amedeus Akorli, Blay Kaku Freeman, Nkpe Tornyie Kudjo, Kofi Dzereke, Thompson Tsigbe, Benjamin Agbodzagah, Agbenyega Akudzi and Sergeant Samuel Kpogli Kwabla.
The panel was chaired by a panel of three members – judges Jerome N. Nkrumah, Charles Ekow Baiden and Afia Serwaa Asare-Botwe.
On May 8, 2018, the group's octogenarian leader, Charles Kormi Kudzodzi (aka Papavi Hogbedetor), granted a bond of 250,000 GH ¢, with two bonds, one of which must be justified.
The nine defendants were charged with conspiracy for complicity in treason, complicity in unlawful training, unlawful badembly and offensive behavior conducive to breach of the peace.
Request for deposit
The defendants were released on bail following a request from their lawyer, MET.P. Akaba, who argued that his clients, once released on bail, would always prevail to be judged.
"Once admitted on bail, they will not interfere in police investigations either and will not do anything to jeopardize the trial," said the lawyer.
The prosecutor, Mr. Fred Awindago, public prosecutor, did not oppose the bail application, but asked the court to set conditions that would require the defendants to always appear in court for the trial.
The hearing is continuing on July 1, 2019.
facts
According to the facts, as presented by the prosecution, the group calling itself HSGF planned to separate the Volta region from Ghana and to declare it an independent country called "Western Togoland".
They say that the Volta region (Western Togoland) was once an independent state before having to join Ghana to a plebiscite.
Eight of its members were arrested by a police and military team in a house in Ho as they held a meeting to finalize the arrangements for the declaration of the Independent State of the Volta on May 9, 2009 .
When the police intercepted their meeting, they found t-shirts bearing the inscriptions: "May 9 is our day" and "A citizen of Western Togo".
Police also found messages indicating that Private Sgt Kwabla had sent the group advance messages to conceal his weapons due to an impending raid by a team of police and military personnel.
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