Western Togoland “Rebels” Hoodwinked with NPP  Army Protocol Recruitment

Following the Army’s arrest of 21 people in Dzodze yesterday, suspicion that they were secessionist boot-camping to train as insurgents for the Homeland Study Group has given way to the revelation that the suspects thought their recruitment was part of protocol recruitments into the Ghana Army by the NPP Government.
 
The 21 suspects tell of how they paid Ghc800 each as recruitment fees to scouts who had posed as high-ups in the ruling party filling out a protocol list reserved for only NPP party faithful.
 
“One of my friends called me that there is Ghana army training is ongoing and it’s protocol so the person said we should come and that’s why am here,” that is according Francis Atsu who left his job as a mason and jumped at the false opportunity to become a soldier through protocol recruitment
 
He adds that “when we came they told us it’s not Ghana army but rather Western Togoland Army and we told them that that is not the information that we got before coming here  so the person who connected us to the protocol, we asked him and he said that no they will train us and then they will recruit us under Ghana army.”
 
Mr. Atsu’s account is corroborated by Justina Abokie, who similarly left her job as a teacher and took the step of faith with the people who had smartly fronted the illegal recruitments with the Akufo-Addo government’s penchant for protocol recruitments into the security agencies. Abokie is the only female in the gang rounded up by security agencies yesterday.
 
Ms. Abokie Explains that she was told that she was being recruited to come and do military-type farming for some white people only for her to arrive and be confronted with a shabby boot camp in the middle of the bush.
 
According to the suspects, they quickly entered into a routine of training and doing drills after arrival at the camp after paying the Ghc800 recruitment fee. Among others, they lifted weights in the form of logs and rocks and also a lot of push-ups.
 
They also did drills including marching.
 
The revelations throw light on how the government’s penchant to fill the security agencies with party people through secret protocol recruitments has left many believing that these agencies can only receive them through back door protocol tactics.
 
As they were too  late find out, they had been recruited for the purpose of acquiring military training for the cause by the Homeland Study Group Foundation to lead the Volta Region to secede from Ghana.
 
The Foundation says that a plebiscite that paved way for the Volta Region, parts of Northern and Upper East Regions to become part of Ghana, has expired and therefore the territory, named as Western Togoland, should be given independence from Ghana.
 
Leader of the group, Charles Komi Kudzordzi, was last year September, arrested together with 18 of his followers and arraigned before court, but was later released when the Attorney General dropped charges.
 
By December of the same year, the octogenarian had declared the independence of Western Togoland again and has since gone into hiding, using YouTube videos to carry on his crusade.