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By Morkporkpor Anku, GNA
Accra, July 8, GNA – A High Court of Accra has
released nine people accused of allegedly attempting to secede
Ghana, to be known as Western Togo and as an independent state.
When the case was called on Monday, July 8,
Ms. Winifred Sarpong, Senior Attorney General, told the court that she had been
charged to remove the case.
The three-member panel chaired by
Judge Jerome Nkrumah subsequently dropped the case file.
The court stated that although three members of the
the group was still in detention, the court said the discharge affected all
their.
At the last adjournment date, the nine accused
people still had to execute their bail a few weeks after the High Court of Accra
gave them a deposit.
When the case was called that day,
Detective Sergeant Ali Ganani told the court that the police had received
documents relating to properties located at various locations in Accra and Ho and have
forwarded to the Lands Commission to determine the ownership of the
Properties.
Mr. Ganani said, "We did some
followed and they have not completed the research yet. "
The Court has trained three judges, the judge
Jerome Noble Nkrumah, Chair, Judge Ekow Baiden and Ms. Afia Serwah
Asare-Botwe.
Mr. Fred Awindago, a prosecutor, told the
Court that the prosecution has encountered new evidence that they are seeking to file
against the accused.
Judge Baiden urged police not to use
procedures and procedures to limit the fundamental rights of accused persons,
adding that "you have to speed up the process".
He told them to go to various
places and conduct the search and that, if the prosecution was not ready to
start, they could also inform the Court of the release of the accused and
when they are ready, they could bring them back to court.
Judge Asare-Botwe stated that the prosecution was unsuccessful.
need days, weeks and months to re-clbadify processes, looking at the
age.
She said now that technology has made things
easier in the execution of justice.
The court awarded a bond to the
eight remaining defendants in the amount of 100,000 GH ¢ each with two bonds each
everything to be justified.
Court had previously granted bail
President of the so-called 85-year-old Homeland Study Group Foundation,
Charles Kormi Kudjordji, for an amount of 250 000 GH ¢ with two sureties, one to
to be justified.
The accused will also have to report
themselves to the police on Monday and Thursday each week.
The other accused are Mr. Bisa Akorli, 54 years old, Mr.
Kofi Dzereke, 39, Mr. Thompson Tsigbe, 58, Mr. Benjamin Agbadzada, 48, Mr.
Agbenyega Akudzi, 54, Mr. Freemen Blikaku, 36, and Mr. Nkpe Tsryiri Kudzo, aged
61.
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
Police and military at Ho on Sunday, May 5 this year in a house,
when a meeting was organized to arrange so-called to declare part of Ghana
Western Togoland and as an independent state on May 9, 20I9.
GNA
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