The Latest On The Secessionist Arrest Of “Western Togoland” For Ghana’s Independence, Map, Funding And Military Response

The United States of America issues a travel alert to Dema citizens of Ghana after protests by a separatist group from western Togo in parts of the country.

From the US through a website of the United States Embassy in Ghana advises citizens to “avoid traveling to the Volta region until the security situation is resolved.”

According to the US Embassy, ​​”Ghana’s security services are in the area to address the issues. Avoid travel to or through Volta until the situation improves.”

The US security alert to Ghana’s Dema citizens comes after last week’s Friday riots in the Volta region when separatists declared themselves sovereign of Ghana and blocked some of the main roads where they entered the region. .

Authorities arrest more than 30 people who are part of the protests, but the Ghanaian government says police are in pursuit of the group’s leadership.

The separatists attack two police stations, the free prisoners seize the police weapons to carry out other activities.

Reports say at least one civilian was killed after separatists exchanged gunfire and security officials last week.

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah for the press conference said that the government discovered the source of funding for the secessionists, who dem dey would take funds for dema activities.

Mr. Nkrumah explains that the security agencies are making some moves to deal with the matter and are publishing the names of the key players behind den tins to stop future incidents.

“Various agencies move as part of a comprehensive plan to deal with this phenomenon and try to deal more with the source of funding, the people they believe to be associated with the group’s funding,” reveals Mr. Nkrumah.

More than 10 years ago the group campaigned for the Volta region and parts of northern Ghana to break away and form a new territory they would call western Togo.

The region is not within the former Gold Coast borders, which are now part of present-day Ghana and at that time will be known as Trans Volta Togoland territory, but in 1956 the territory voted in favor of the union plus newly independent Ghana. .

The Homeland Study Group Foundation wants the independence of parts of Volta, Oti, the North, the Northeast and the Upper East Regions of Ghana to become a new country.

The leader of Dema Charles Kormi Kudzodzi, on November 16, 2019 declared the independence of the territory of ‘Western Togoland’, but the government claims trash.

Di group don dey campaigned for over 10 years for the di Volta region and parts of northern Ghana to break away and form a new kontri that demma calls western Togoland.

The region is not within the former borders of the Gold Coast, which is now part of present-day Ghana and at that time became the territory of Trans Volta Togoland. But by 1956, the di Pipo of that territory voted to unite with the newly independent Ghana.

The group’s claims say that western Togoland does not follow the laws established by Queen Elizabeth on the Gold Coast.

By 2017, a court within Ghana’s rule says the group will make clear its United Nations status on the countries’ top lawsuits.

The Homeland Study Group Foundation says they want western Togoland, which is currently the Volta region, to become an independent state separate from Ghana before-before it became an independent state to join Ghana during the plebiscite of 1956.

The demands per dema, the Volta region, parts of the northern region, the northeastern regions and the upper east will become part of the western state of Togo.

The group sees one of the main reasons why they separated from Ghana due to social and economic underdevelopment.

Emmanuel Agbavor, National Executive of the Homeland Study Group Foundation, in a BBC talk, says that “we hold back too much … development must be a motive. If you go all over western Togo to Bawku, it seems a rat”.