Highly influential member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has expressed outrage at suggestions that government could be behind the Friday morning disturbances in the Volta region by a group of persons seeking secession from Ghana.
According to him, propounding conspiracy theories and suspecting government’s involvement in “Western Togoland” disturbances falls short of sensible philosophy and comprehension.
Following violence, allegedly perpetrated by a secessionist group in the Volta Region, some Ghanaians have alleged that the disturbances are being carried out by agents of the government as a diversionary tactic.
Some argue that the disturbances are a ploy by government to divert attention from the electoral commission’s voter exhibition exercise, which has been fraught with numerous challenges. Others, especially supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), have maintained that the government has sponsored the recent acts of violence so as to justify deploying security personnel into the area, which they say, will work in the interest of the governing NPP because the Volta region is the NDC’s stronghold.
A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edudzi Kudzo Tameklo on Friday morning accused the National Security of being behind the attacks on two police stations in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region and the blockage of major entries into the Volta Region.
According to the legal practitioner, the attacks on police stations in the Volta Region and the blockage of major entries into the region are actions by the current National Security architecture to justify the deployment of military personnel to some border towns across the country which the NDC alleged were part of plots by the government to prevent Voltarians and other non-Akans from participating in the exercise to compile a new voters register.
But Mr Asare Otchere-Darko has wondered how discerning Ghanaians can conceive that idea in the first place, concluding that such a viewpoint is stupidity beyond philosophical comprehension.
“This stupidity is beyond even philosophical comprehension. That there are “sensible” people in Ghana, pushing groupthink & propounding a conspiracy theory that government is behind this “Western Togoland” madness,” he wrote on social media.
A group of armed men believed to be members of the Homeland Study Foundation, a secessionist group which has been clamoring for a break away from Ghana, reportedly attacked Aveyime and Mepe Police stations in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region.
The armed men, Reports say, forcibly took over both police stations simultaneously, overpowered the officers on duty breaking into the armoury and made away with all weapons in it in the wee hours of Friday, September 25, 2020.
