Twenty-two persons, including a self-styled lawyer, Dennis Seyram Benson, who allegedly are members of the prohibited organisation, Western Togoland Foundation, and related organisations, have been remanded into lawful custody by a Kaneshie District Court.
The accused persons, who are facing charges of conspiracy to commit crime, namely treason, and causing unlawful damage, were denied bail by the Magistrate Court, which concluded that its lacked jurisdiction to grant bail in such matters.
This was as the defence counsels – Theophillus Donkor, Kinsley Kwame Dabzoe and Rexford Nii Nettey Lokko – for the accused persons pleaded with the court, presided over by Her Honour Mrs Ama Adumakoma Kwarkye, to grant them bail.
The accused persons are Nene Kwaku Agblorm II @ Joshua Tawiah Agblorm, Abednego Dzreke Mawuena, Emmanuel Hayford Afedo, Richard Doglo Ametepe, Benjamin Kplivi, Samuel Wor, Charles Elo, Richard Kwasi Norgbordzi, Stephen Kpexor, and Kpexor Bersa Israel.
The rest are Ebenezer Nyaletasi, Ephas Zodanu, Moses Gadago, Ernest Dzitor, Vincent Amaglo Gakpetor, Atigah Dziwornu @ Adonis, Godwin Adzowu, Samuel Yoa Fiagbedzi, Samuel Atsu Gagbetor , Joseph Nyamewu, and Dennis Seyram Benson.
Meanwhile, the Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sylvester Asare, in brief facts he read before the court, said that the accused persons, who members of alleged Western Togoland Foundation and related organisations, agreed together with a common purpose to secede from the Republic of Ghana.
According to him, pursuant to their agreement, and together with others at large, on September 25, 2020, inter alia, attacked the Aveyime and Mepe Police stations in the Volta Region.
He said the accused persons overpowered the officers at the stations involved, broke into the armouries, and made away with a total of 17 Ak47 assault rifles, five pump action guns, one shotgun, two Mack-3 guns, Mack-4, and three SMGs rifles.
The accused persons were also said to have made away with 11 rubber bullets, 25 rounds of 37mm tear gas bullets, and about 300 rounds of Ak-47 bullets.
ASP Asare added: “The suspects took along the police patrol vehicle at the Aveyime Police Station. Further, the suspects and others at large broke into the rooms of officers at the Aveyime Police Station and made away with their personal effects, including television sets, sound systems, monies, and police accoutrements value not yet known.”
The Prosecutor stated that police investigation led to the arrest of the accused persons on October 19, 2020, and the retrieval of some properties stolen from the Mepe and Aveyime Police stations.
Rexford Nii Nettey Lokko, Counsel for the self-styled lawyer, Dennis Seyram Benson, prayed that court to expunged the name of his client from the list of alleged separatist group members, since he was not arrested in connection with the offences for which they were being tried.
But the court refused his plea.
The case was adjourned to January 11, 2021 for the committal trial to continue.
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