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.