Personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces have arrested 21 suspected young men including a lady who were receiving a military training by succesnist group, Homeland Study Group Foundation in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region.
A team of over 40 military personnel of the 66 Artillery Regiment in Ho, including two crime scene investigators from the Ghana Police Service, led by the Comanding Officer of the Regiment, Lt. Col. Benard Baba Pantoal rounded up at the training camp in a forest in Kpevedui, a suburb of Dzodze during the early hours of Monday, 17 February, upon having an intelligence of the camp.
The suspects were after their arrest lifted in a helicopter to Accra for further interrogations.
Lieutenant Colonel Baba Pantoah, told a team of Press men who accompanied the team to the scene that, about three other suspected separatists escaped before the arrests were made.
The Comanding Officer was optimistic that the suspects are separatists saying “What were they doing here around 2 am in this bush, in this thick forest? We are convinced they are members but further investigations will establish other facts,” he said.
He said the suspects will be handed over to the Ghana Police Service for investigation.
Who are Home Land Study Group Foundation?
It is a succesnist group emerging from the Volta, Oti and some parts of northern Ghana, who are demanding for their independent. The people are led by one Papavi Hogbedetor, an 80 year old man, who are demanding to be a country on its own, from Ghana and shall be called Western Togoland.
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