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By Morkporkpor Anku, GNA
Accra, June 6, GNA – A High Court of Accra on
Thursday granted a bond to the remaining eight people claiming secession from a party of
a western Togoland as an independent state of Ghana with the sum of GH¢100,000 with
two guarantees all justified.
The president of the so-called
Homeland Study Group, Mr. Charles Kormi Kudjordji, was also awarded
deposit by the same court in the amount of 250 000 GH ¢ with two sureties, one for
justified.
Previously, Mr. A.T.P Akaba, lead counsel
accused, asked the court for bail, to which Mr.
Fred Awindago, a Attorney General.
The accused will also have to report
to the police on Mondays and Thursdays every week.
The three-member court chaired
by Judge Jerome Noble Nkrumah with Judge Ekow Baiden and Ms. Afia
Serwah Asare-Botwe as members, also ordered the investigator to locate the
physical structures of the accused before the execution of the bond.
The court adjourned the trial on July 1.
The accused are Mr. Bisa Akorli, 54, Mr. Kofi
Dzereke, 39, Mr. Thompson Tsigbe, 58, Mr. Benjamin Agbadzada, 48, Mr. Agbenyega
Akudzi, 54, Freemen Blikaku, 36, and Nkpe Tsryiri Kudzo, 61.
At the last postponed date, the ninth
accused was brought to court in the person of a sergeant Samuel
Kwabla Kpogli.
They were charged with conspiracy to commit
crime of treason, complicity in unlawful training, illegal and offensive gathering
conduct conducive to breaking the peace.
The Nine were arrested by a team composed of
On Sunday, May 5, in Ho, in the house of a police officer and a military, police officers
to meet for allegedly arranging to declare a West Togoland as an independent
State May 9, 20I9.
GNA
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