A Circuit court in Accra has remanded the 21 persons who were rounded up by the army in Dzodze on suspicion of boot-camping for training as soldiers of the separatist group, Homeland Study Group Foundation, which is demanding the independence of the Volta and parts of the Upper East and Oti Regions, from Ghana.
The 20 males and one female, have been charged with participation in the campaign of a prohibited organization and attending a meeting of the organization.
On Monday, the accused persons had been rounded up by personnel from the 66 Artillery Regiment of the Army based in Ho, after a tip-off.
The accused have since explained that they had paid sums between Ghc40 and Ghc80 as recruitment fees, but that they had been misled into thinking they were boot-camping for training to be recruited into the Ghana Armed Forces.
However, prosecutors are having none of it, apparently taking a cue from the fact that after leader of the Homeland Study Group Foundation, Charles Komi Kudzordzi, had been free last year after his arrest and subsequent arraignment before court, he has since started activism for secession again