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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 have been arrested.
The Regional 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 scope of the weapons recovered from the secessionist group and what assistance could be obtained.
However, he did not give specific figures, explaining that the figures were continually changing and thus making them irrelevant.
According to the Volta regional minister, what was important was the nature of the dispatch that state security had switched to deploying intelligence to investigate and arrest key members of the group, but failed to 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 Police Station of Mepe and Aveyime. We’re moving forward “
He reassured people to embark on their duties without fear, but provided information on suspicious characters in the communities.
Dr. Letsa also said that there were still weapons to be recovered, but that the various arrests may lead to the recovery of more weapons.
“We have made quite a significant number of arrests and we are still following leads to recover more of them. We may not be able to get them all back, but whatever, if we can’t get them back, 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. they have made their previous positions untenable. “
Dr. Letsa said that the various justifications could have opinions and not be 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, promising to be part of the government. strategy to resolve the issue.
He said that from the Commission’s point of view conflicts that the use of weapons becomes their work apparatus and that they are ostensibly here to have a conversation with the main players, the VRCC, REGSEC and the Ho Police Service.
The Executive Secretary said that if the weapons are not returned, the Commission would 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”.
Information Minister Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said that the West Togoland problem is more about deregulation and disinformation, claiming that some people are misleading these young men and women that what happened during the plebiscite gave them the opportunity of secession.
He said that the Commission abhors the introduction of weapons in conflicts, much less the demands of secessionist groups because “no armed conflict has really been won with weapons, of course, we have to come to the negotiating table.”
Applerh said there was nothing like western Togo anywhere in the world’s literature books that awarded a year of break, saying young people should know that this adventure was nebulous and a selfish vendetta that cannot provide any long-term relief. term. -Execute 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 those requests and go back to leading a normal life, after all, we seize weapons that belong to other countries in Ghana, Recently, a Ghanaian gun was found in Zimbabwe and returned,
In the same way, if we know the number of weapons missing from police stations and we dial their serial numbers, we can update the UN database on illicit weapons. ” he said.
Subsequently, the Commission requested a hearing with the hierarchy of the Police Administration of the region.
