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Volta Regional Minister Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa has revealed that a considerable number of key players from the Western Togo Restoration Front, who committed crimes against the state in a September 25 attack in an attempt to secede from Ghana , have been arrested.
The Minister made the disclosure to the media when the Executives of the Small Arms and Light Weapons Commission made a fact-finding visit to the Regional Coordination Council to determine the extent of the recovery of weapons from the secessionist group and what assistance could be obtained.
However, he did not provide figures to explain that the figures keep changing and are therefore irrelevant.
He said the important thing was the nature of the dispatch that state security had moved to deploy intelligence to investigate and arrest key members of the group, but did not name any of the perpetrators.
Dr. Letsa, who is also president of the Regional Security Council (REGSEC), said that “we have a duty to maintain peace in the region and also protect lives and property and that is the resolution of the security services.”
“Even last night arrests were made and some were those who broke into the Mepe and Aveyime Police Station. We are moving forward ”, reassuring people to embark on their duties without fear, but providing information on suspicious characters in the communities.
He said that there were still weapons to be recovered and that we have made several arrests that may lead to the recovery of more weapons.
“We have made quite a significant number of arrests and we continue to follow leads to recover more of them. We may not be able to recover all of them, but in any case, if we cannot recover them, our friends at the Commission will help us.”
He acknowledged the various groups in the region and beyond, who have condemned the invasion of some roads by the secessionist group and subsequently the arson at the State Transportation Corporation terminal in Ho, as revealing, but said the justification given by the same group has made their previous positions untenable. “
Dr. Letsa said that the various justifications could be optional and not supported by forensic evidence and therefore called for decorum, adding that “we have a security situation at hand, at best let’s unite to overcome it.
Jones Borteye Applerh, Executive Secretary of the Small Arms and Light Weapons Commission, said members and some actors are in the region on a fact-finding mission into the recent unrest of a separatist group seeking to secede from Ghana, pledging to be part of the government’s strategy. to resolve the matter.
He said that from the Commission’s point of view, the conflicts involving the use of weapons becomes their working apparatus and they are ostensibly here to have a conversation with the main actors, the VRCC, REGSEC and the Ho Police Service.
The Executive Secretary said that if the weapons are not returned, the Commission will declare them as illicit weapons, which would be placed in the United Nations illicit small arms database, insisting that “this is part of the contribution we make to actors”.
He said that the Minister of Information, Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the problem of western Togoland is more about deregulation and disinformation, stating that some people are misleading these young men and women that what happened during the plebiscite gave the opportunity of secession.
He said that the Commission abhors the introduction of weapons into conflicts, much less the demands of secessionist groups because “no armed conflict has really been won by using weapons by all the means we have to come to the negotiating table.”
Applerh said there was nothing like western Togo anywhere in the world’s literature books granting a year of breakup saying young people should know that this adventure was nebulous and a selfish revenge that cannot provide any long-term relief. term. run but a clear case of a myth that did not exist.
“In time, they will be losers and they will be on the bad side of the law, so it is better that they lower or abandon that request and go back to leading a normal life.”
“After all, we seized weapons belonging to other countries in Ghana, recently, a Ghanaian weapon was found in Zimbabwe and returned. In the same way if we find out the number of weapons missing from police stations and dial their numbers series, we can update the UN database on illicit weapons. “
Subsequently, the Commission requested a hearing with the hierarchy of the Police Administration of the region.
Source: GNA
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