Papavi and others Arrested For Trying To Declare Volta Region An Independent State
An 80-year-old leader and seven otherleading members of the Volta Separatist
movement have been arrested and flown to
Accra by the National Security.
The separatist movement in the Volta Region,
the Homeland Study Group Foundation
(HSGF), is a group calling for the secession of
the Volta Region from Ghana.
The group claims that the Volta Region
(Western Togoland) was an independent state
before being made to join Ghana in a
plebiscite.
The leader of the group, Mr. Charles Kormi
Kudzodzi – popularly known as Papavi
Hogbedetor, was arrested with seven others on
Sunday at one of the group’s regular study
meetings.
A member of the homeland study group told
Citi News that during the meeting, they
discussed “the struggle towards
independence.”
The suspects were flown by a helicopter from
the 66 artillery regiment to an unknown
destination.
Attempts by journalists to understand the
circumstances of the situation and the
justification for the arrest proved futile as
the joint police-military team declined to
grant permission or audience to the media.
The leadership of the Homeland Study Group
foundation were earlier in March 2017
arrested for attempting to declare the Volta
Region an independent state.
They were charged with treason but were later
discharged with a warning.
A relative of Mr. Kudzodzi, Emmanuel Agbavor
told Citi News that the group had learned that
those arrested on Sunday are in the custody
of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI)
in Accra.