Separatist group declares 'independence' for 'Western Togoland

A group championing the secession of parts of Ghana along the border with Togo, has declared independence for the territory they call 'Western Togoland'.

The Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) announced its separation on their official social media page on Saturday, November 16, after a group meeting took place in Ho.

“Today the 16th of November 2019, the leader of Western Togoland independence Mr Charles Kormi Kudzodzi has announced the separation of Western Togoland from Ghana. He sighted numerous reasons as the bases for which the union that was not established must not be recognized. More information will soon reach the General public soon,” they wrote on Facebook.

HSGF has been demanding the secession of the Volta Region and parts of the Northern, North East and Upper East Regions from Ghana to become the Western Togoland state.

In May 2019, some members of the group were arrested by the police hereby  charged them with conspiracy to commit treason, felony, abetment of unlawful training, unlawful assembly and offensive conduct conducive to the breach of peace in the region

According to him, residents of the Western Togoland voted to become a union with the Gold Coast (now Ghana) but the union had not been established up till now.

He explained that Ghana opted to be a unitary state under the plebiscite in 1956 [referendum] to be in union with a common constitution but with the Western Togoland and the Gold Coast there had been no unionised constitution up to date.

It has been calling for the declaration of Western Togoland which is perceived as stretching from Kulungugu in the Upper East Region to Keta on the Southern coast by the Atlantic ocean, as a sovereign state.

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