Togbe Afede speaks on ‘Western Togoland’ impasse

The President of the National House of Chiefs and the Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State, Togbe Afede XIV, has asked state security agencies to deal with members of the Western Togoland secessionist group, otherwise known as Homeland Study Group Foundation. 

His comments follow Friday’s mounting of roadblocks on major entry routes to the Volta Region by the group seeking to break away from Ghana to form the Western Togoland.

Speaking to Journalists on the issue, Togbe Afede warned that the government needs to be proactive in dealing with the matter.

“The allegations of road blockage and closures, attempts at causing distractions to state property, kidnapping. These are the kind of things that I have not recollected ever happening in our country.

“The Honourable Minister of National Security talked to me this morning about it and then I also made the efforts to contact some chiefs from the Volta Region about a response from the Volta regional House of Chiefs” he said.

He added, “It requires the support of all of us to ensure that this does not escalate any further . The standing committee will issue an apparent response after this this meetings to the happenings in the Volta region which we disapprove of.

“This not something that any of us must condone, it is something that we should all support the government to ensure that it is nipped in the bud so we can continue to live in peace as a nation.”

Meanwhile, twenty-five members of the secessionist group have also been picked up by the Ghana Armed Forces and the Ghana Police Service.

Currently, there is heavy military and police presence currently at the area.