Deputy Minister of Interior, Major (retired) Derrick Oduro, has described the Homeland Study Group Foundation, a separatist movement as highly dangerous.
Slamming the group’s supposed declaration of ‘Western Togoland’ as an independent State, Major Derrick Oduro stressed that Ghana remained a sovereign state, which has not ceded any part of its territory to any person or group of persons, hence the group should be disregarded.
He said Ghana is a peaceful country and such actions by such groups could bring about a civil war in the country.
“We need to stop these people before they bring chaos into the country. Anytime there is such movement in other countries, war and bloodshed is what we see so we cannot have such people in our country, it is tantamount to treason,” he said on Accra-based Neat FM, monitored by Adomonline.com.
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The 80-year-old leader of the separatist movement, Charles Komi Kudzordzi, affectionately called Papavi Hogbedetor, made the declaration of ‘independence’ at a public gathering in Ho on Saturday, November 16.
He cited the recent omission of some critical roads in the Volta Region from the Critical Roads Project list in the 2020 budget as evidence that the region was no longer of a priority to government.
Reacting to the news of their declaration of ‘independence’, the government promised to deal with the group and subsequently asked Ghanaians to disregard their declaration of independence.