[ 2017-03-09 ]

Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr

Kwesi Pratt condemns secession movement in Volta Region
Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper has
described as unfortunate reports that the Homeland
Study Group Foundation, is considering seceding
from Ghana.

According to Kwesi Pratt Jnr. the decision would
be useless if it is not fully supported and backed
by the President of Togo.

“The secessionist group’s decision will not
see any light if they do not have the support of
Togo and its President. I know that the current
President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe will not even
entertain such decisions not even to talk of
supporting them and so it is important that they
abort their decision,” he said on Adom FM’s
Morning Show “Dwaso Nsem” Thursday.

The group, according to sources has been operating
for decades now, calling for the restoration of
the Western Togoland which stretched from Northern
Region through the Upper East and Volta regions to
the Gulf of Guinea.

Meanwhile, the Volta Regional Police Command has
picked leaders of the Homeland Study Group
Foundation for interrogation.

Mr Kormi Kudzordzi, 90, popularly known as Papa
Hogbedetor, Chairman of the Group, Divine Odonkor,
65, member and Martin Asiana Agbenu, 57, member,
were all picked Tuesday afternoon.

Agbenu and Odonkor are in police custody but
Kudzordzi was released on bail on grounds of old
age.

Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the
Volta Region, Nana Asomah Hinneh, said the three
persons were arrested “for actualizing their
plans of declaring independence of the Volta
Region as Western Togoland.”

He said Agbenu was picked on Ghana’s
Independence Day at Tokokoe, near Ho, distributing
“T” shirts with the inscription, “9th May
2017 is our day-Western Togoland.”

Mr Hinneh said the leaders would be charged for
treason and that the case would be referred to the
Attorney General for advice.

But Mr Pratt reacting to the issue indicated that
though there are problems with the Ghana-Togo
border, it does not call for what he describes as
the aggressive nature portrayed by the group.

“It is a wrong move by this group; there is no
way they would not be arrested because what they
are doing is illegal and violation of the law.
These borders are unreasonable, they don’t make
sense. The Europeans did that because of their own
selfish reasons.

“There are problems with the borders but they
can’t use that style to divide a country. Ghana
is not big country like others. In fact, we are
struggling for a union government of the
continent, how then can we divide it? We have 10
regions and if all the people rise up to seek for
division, which one would survive?” he quizzed.

But Mr Pratt however lauded the security for
tracing this issue in the early stages leading to
the arrest.

Source - adomonline.com

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