Five members of the Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF) have been handed hard labor sentences of five years each by the Accra High Court.
In an effort to prevent people from other parts of Ghana from accessing the Volta Region, the convicts in 2020 attacked police officers, destroyed a police car and a police station, and blocked roads leading to the Volta Region. They wanted to break away from Ghana for a reason.
Ebenezer Gblorkpor, Afetorgbor Kpogo, Joseph Nyamewu, Wisdom Kuvor, and Israel Bessah Kpexor are the indicted individuals.
They were found guilty of being members of the Western Togoland Restoration Front, a criminal organization whose goal was to separate the Volta and Oti Regions from Ghana.
The maximum sentence allowed by law was five years in prison. The presiding judge, Justice Mary Yanzur, stated that the five convicts were members of the WTRF group that attacked police officers, destroyed a police car and a police station, and blocked roads leading to the Volta Region in 2020, as Graphic Online's Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson reports from the court.
She claimed that the five's actions were premeditated, aggravating, and an affront to the nation's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security.
The judge said that despite the fact that the five convicts had already served about two years on remand, the court decided to impose a harsh sentence to discourage people from doing things that could harm the country's sovereignty and national security.
The Accra High Court has sentenced five members of the Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF) to five years imprisonment each in hard labour.
The convicts in 2020 attacked police officers, destroyed a police car and a police station as well as blocked roads leading to the Volta Region in an attempt to prevent people from other parts of Ghana to access the Volta Region.
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