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Lawyers Warn ‘separatists’

March 13, 2017
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Homeland Study Group Foundation, whose sole objective is to break away from Ghana, has been told to tread cautiously as their demand is contrary to the country’s constitution.

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The Foundation’s objective had stirred controversy as its members claimed, they will no more be part of Ghana by May 9, 2017.

Three of their leaders – Kormi Kudzordzi, Martin Asianu Agbenu and Divine Odonkor – were arrested over the weekend, and charged with treason.

They were however granted bail and asked to reappear on Tuesday, March 14.

Speaking on 3FM New Day on Saturday, March 11, 2017, private legal practitioner Yaw Oppong condemned the action of the group, saying their declaration of a portion of Ghana’s land is treasonable.

“Any Ghanaian can say he or she can’t be Ghanaian anymore but you cannot go away with our land.”

Though the group claimed  there were  no documents to back a 1956 referendum conducted in the then Trans-Volta Togoland, some of its members said, the result of the constitutional exercise prior to Ghana’s independence was to expire after 50 years.

Hence their resolve to declare independence on May 9, 2017.

“What is wrong,” lawyer Oppong suggested, “is the declaration that a portion of Ghana is no more part of the jurisdiction of Ghana.”

Another lawyer on the programme, Gary Nimako, said the action of the group was as a    result of central government’s neglect of the region over the past years.

He said if development had trickled down to them, they would not have thought of such action.

Lawyer Nimako, again, said the action of the group did not warrant treason as charged.

The Group was seeking to declare the entire Volta Region and the western parts of Northern and Upper East regions independent.

Meanwhile Ho Regional Police Command in the Volta Region has forwarded the ‘separatists’ case to a High Court in Ho in the Volta Region.

A Magistrate Court in Ho on Thursday, March 9, 2017, declined jurisdiction in the case saying it was above its jurisdiction.

Lawyer for the accused persons, Atsu Agbakpe, confirmed the latest development on Eyewitness News, adding that the court had granted his clients bail.

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