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General News of Monday, July 8, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-07-08
The nine people who were part of a group calling the Homeland Study Group Foundation
The High Court of Accra released nine people accused of planning to separate the Volta region from the rest of Ghana.
The nine people who were part of a group called the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) were released after the public prosecutor's office (A-G) filed a prosequi nose to dismiss the case.
The nine accused were Charles Kormi Kudzodzi (aka Papavi Hogbedetor), Besa Amedeus Akorli, Blay Kaku Freeman, Nkpe Tornyie Kudjo, Kofi Derek, Thompson Tsigbe, Benjamin Agbodzagah, Agbenyega Akudzi and Sergeant Samuel Kogwawa.
Striped case
At today's hearing, a senior lawyer, Ms. Winifred Sarpong, informed the three-member court that the prosecution had been instructed to withdraw the case.
In light of the foregoing, the presiding Judge Jerome Nkrumah, composed of Judge Ekow Baiden and Judge Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, struck out the case and removed the accused.
Charges
The nine defendants have all been charged with conspiracy for complicity in treason, illegal training, illegal badembly and offensive behavior conducive to breach of the peace.
Stop
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 .
According to the prosecution, 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 revealing that Sgt Kwabla, the soldier, had given the group advance messages to hide his weapons, due to an impending raid by a team of police and military.
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