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Police and army joined forces to help bring calm to North Tongu and neighboring districts after the riots
A man was found dead in Nyatsignor, a village in the North Tongu constituency, following riots caused by the secessionist group Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF) on Friday, September 25.
According to the Volta region security council, the man is suspected of being caught in the crossfire during the shooting that occurred between the country’s joint security forces and the WTRF.
This is the second death to be recorded after the riots.
Speaking on Top Story, JoyNews correspondent Ivy Setordjie reported that the body was found by an elderly man in the community on Saturday, the day after the riots.
According to the report, the police arrived at the scene on Monday to remove the body.
Meanwhile, some 300 people are reported to have fled the city following the unrest.
Riots
The secessionist group Western Togoland Restoration Front in the early hours of September 25 blocked the main entrances to the Volta region claiming its independence as Western Togoland.
Most of the passengers traveling to areas of the Volta region, including Tefle, Tsopoli and Juapong, were stranded as a result of the development.
The secessionists also attacked the Aveyime and Mepe police stations in the North Tongu district of the Volta region.
The group of armed men, of about 50, took by force both stations simultaneously; Dominate the police officers and get rid of the guns from the armory.
The group in Mepe, after raising a western Togo flag, joined their colleagues at the Aveyime police station, seized two police vehicles, detained 3 officers, including the chief of police, and one injured.
The doctors who treated the Chief of Police revealed that they recovered 19 DB bullet pellets from the body.
Speaking to JoyNews, Bator Catholic Hospital medical director Dr. Bernard Atuguba said that although the other two officers were seriously injured, the divisional police commander, ASP Dennis Fiakpui, was the only one to show up at the hospital. with a gunshot wound.
A member of the group was reportedly killed in a shootout with the joint security team that had been deployed to restore calm.
Thirty-one people were arrested and taken to the offices of the Office of National Investigations (BNI) in Accra for questioning about events in the region.
Meanwhile, the government has distanced itself from attacks by the secessionists involved in the revolt.
The Information Minister said that claims that the event is part of a ploy by the Akufo-Addo-led administration to unnecessarily increase the security presence in the Region are figments of the imagination of some people.
However, Tamale Norte MP Alhassan Suhuyini says it is imperative for President Akufo-Addo to address the nation on the issue of the separatist group Volta trying to declare the Volta region as an independent country.
According to him, the president’s credibility as president of ECOWAS will be questioned if the violence that occurred on Friday is not addressed.
Likewise, the Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has requested an independent investigation into the attack on some police stations by alleged members of the secessionist group.
Sammy Gyamfi said the government is complicit in considering his inability to nip his activities in the bud, as the police claim to have had intelligence prior to the event.
