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Two Policemen and two others have appeared before the Kaneshie District Court for allegedly agreeing with a common purpose of secede from Ghana.
Billy Akuaku and Gabriel Dorduno, both Police Inspectors stationed at Jasikan Police District Command in the Oti Region, whiles Jasper Mawulolo Agudogo works with a private security firm and Saviour Amanyo, a resident of Dzodze.
The four have been variously charged with conspiracy to commit crime, treason felony, conspiracy to commit crime namely participating in a campaign of prohibited organisation, namely Western Togoland, conspiracy to commit crime namely causing unlawful damage and stealing.
The court presided over by Ms Ama Adomako Kwakye did not take their pleas because of the indictable nature of the offence.
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BY: Justice Agbenorsi
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A magistrate of the Kaneshie District Court has urged the prosecution handling the case involving the 22 people who are alleged to have participated in secessionist activities supposedly intended to break away parts of the Volta Region from Ghana to expedite investigations into the matter for committal proceedings to commence.
The presiding magistrate, Ms Ama Adomako Kwakye, has also advised counsel in the case to seek bail application at the appropriate forum, as her court had no jurisdiction to grant bail to the accused persons.
She said it was the trial court that had jurisdiction to grant bail.
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.