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A joint police-military team has transferred to Accra from the Volta region some 31 suspected members of the separatists from western Togo.
They are scheduled to be handed over to the Office of National Investigations (BNI) office in Accra for questioning on developments in the region on Friday, September 25.
The culprits, who are believed to be members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), are 30 men and one woman.
Staff from the Ghana Police Service’s Counter-Terrorism Unit and other security agencies are currently in what they describe as a “high-risk emergency operation.”
The secessionists, who had previously carried out a simultaneous attack on the Aveyime and Mepe police stations in the North Tongu district of the Volta region, say they want the region to be an autonomous country known as Western Togoland.
The number is also an increase from the 21 people arrested initially reported.
A search conducted at the Burma Camp Air Force base before being transferred to the Bureau, revealed that each of them possessed the identification cards of the new voters, suggesting that the suspects are Ghanaians.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Western Western Togo Restoration Front (WTRF), the political wing of the Western Western Togo independence struggle, has ordered all Ghanaian security forces to leave Western Western Togo within the 24 hours, saying that “no weapons or ammunition should be carried with them.”
