Government has served notice it will in the coming days publish names of financiers and influential persons behind the recent secessionist attacks in the Volta region.
The move, according to Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is to avert further attacks on the country by the ‘rebel’ group.
While rejecting accusations that government is behind the Friday morning violent incidents in several parts of the region, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah disclosed that security agencies have identified the source of funding for the group now known to be the Western Togoland Restoration Front.
“The first response was to ensure that these installations were secured and the analysis by the agencies was that, upon doing these successfully, these persons had no option than to do these roadblocks. The intelligence agencies did a good job. They took action to prevent the most dire parts of that intelligence,” he said at a press conference on Sunday.
The separatists on Friday went on the rampage, attacking police stations, blocking roads and exchanging gunfire with security forces. It took the security agencies hours to bring the situation under control.
Initial reports showed that the Homeland Study Group Foundation had carried out the attacks but it has come to light that the Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF) was responsible for the latest violence.
Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Osei Bonsu Amoah earlier disclosed that government and the National Security are aware of an international organization known as Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organization (UNPO) which is supporting the secessionist group’s demand for independence.
Mr. Amoah revealed that a 2017 report by the international organization claimed that the group has been marginalized and are under siege since 2017 by the government of Ghana and has therefore given it recognition as a group “without nation.”
