International security analyst, Farouk Al-Wahab is certain that the leadership of the Volta separatist group is nothing but just a poor band of merry individuals who cannot fund the group and are therefore no threat to the country.
According to him, the people we call separatist in Ghana are not even up to 200 to 300 people.
Speaking on Happy98.9FM’s ‘Epa Hoa Daben’, Al-Wahab stated, “Papavi as we speak, I am sorry but with all due respect, he is a poor man. He is not a rich man. He has nothing. There is also nothing in the region for him to be doing that.He doesn’t even have the capacity to take care of twenty (20) people. Someone can decide to separate himself from a country based on social, political and economic conditions. Volta region has no economic resource to even separate itself from Ghana. No individual will fund or support such people to do this and later see them die of hunger. ”
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He furthered that, the best that the Ghanaian government could have done for Papavi “was to call him, ask their population and demarcate land/areas to them to form their own country and let’s see. He would’ve been helpless. Government will then close its school, cut water and electricity from their ‘country’. If government had done that, he would’ve been helpless. His own people would’ve cut his nose.”
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On his authority, with regard to facts and figures, Papavi does not have international affiliations to even separate himself and others from Ghana. “They can cause an uprising but they can’t form a nation by themselves,”he noted.
The military on Monday morning picked 21 young persons including; a lady said to be receiving military training by secessionist group, Homeland Study Group Foundation, led by Mr. Charles Komi Kudzordzi alias Papavi Hogbedetor in thickets between Kpevedue and Fievue near Dzodze in the Ketu North Municipality.
The group, Homeland Study Group Foundation has been advocating the independence of former Western Togoland made up of Volta Region, Oti Region and parts of the North East Region, Northern Region and Upper East Region.
The region was a German colony but at the end of World War I, it was split in two and the Eastern side ceded to France and is present-day Togo.
The Western side was a British protectorate and voted in a plebiscite in 1956 to join Ghana which was about to be granted independence by Britain.
The Homeland Study Group Foundation argues that the agreement to join Ghana included forming a union in 50 years.
They claim the said union was never formed so since 2007, the group has been championing separation from Ghana.
Leaders of the group have been arrested in the past and released.
By: Joel Sanco