{"id":749007,"date":"2019-11-21T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/21\/papavi-boys-arrested-in-ho\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:41:11","slug":"papavi-boys-arrested-in-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/21\/papavi-boys-arrested-in-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Papavi Boys Arrested In Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>AT LARGE! Charles Kudjordjie aka Papavi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eleven secessionists whose leader declared independence of a<br \/>\nso-called Western Togoland in Ho last Saturday have been arrested in the Volta<br \/>\nRegional capital.<\/p>\n<p>Five of them have already appeared in a Ho Circuit Court and are<br \/>\nnow on remand.<\/p>\n<p>Their arrest by Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and National<br \/>\nSecurity operatives followed an unannounced hunt for their octogenarian leader,<br \/>\nCharles Komi Kudzordzi, aka Papavi Kudzordzi, and key members of the Homeland<br \/>\nStudy Group Foundation (HSGF).<\/p>\n<p>The secessionist project is being executed under the HSGF, their<br \/>\nnationalistic activities having started a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Fish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hunt for the actors in the secession project is far from being<br \/>\nover as the leader himself is still below the radar of the security<br \/>\nagents.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><strong>5 In Court<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The five remanded at the Ho District Court yesterday on charges<br \/>\nof treason felony included Peter Godfriend Edem, Mkpe Tornyi Kudjo, Kofi<br \/>\nAgbeko, Agbenyega Akudzia and Ibrahim Tofa.<\/p>\n<p>They were part of the many who hosted the \u2018independence<br \/>\ndeclaration\u2019 activities of the so-called Western Togoland.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them are alleged to have performed specific roles during<br \/>\nthe declaration which took place near the Police Training School in Ho.<\/p>\n<p>They would re-appear on December 4, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Western Togolander\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peter Godfriend Edem who was said to be prominent during the<br \/>\ndeclaration was the MC and was very loud as he directed proceedings. <\/p>\n<p>As MC, he was said to have been categorical about the position<br \/>\nof the leader whom he described as President Charles Komi Kudzordzi.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects, Kofi Agbeko, <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> has gathered,<br \/>\ndid not dispute his nationality as he told security agents that he is a \u2018Western<br \/>\nTogolander\u2019 and a treasurer of the study group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BNI Dossier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The activities of the study group are known to the national<br \/>\nsecurity apparatus, BNI officers serving in the regional capital having<br \/>\ncompiled a large dossier about its membership. <\/p>\n<p>It was the group leader\u2019s daring of the laws of the land when he<br \/>\ntook a step to publicize their intention which led to his arrest and other<br \/>\nmembers of the secession group. <\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, he stunned the nation when at a well rehearsed<br \/>\npublic show he announced the secession of their Western Togoland from Ghana, a<br \/>\ncountry which by their thinking covers part of the North West, Northern and<br \/>\nUpper regions. <\/p>\n<p><strong>First Arrest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018President\u2019 Papavi and eight or so others were arrested in May<br \/>\n2019 and flown to Accra for calling for a secession.\u00a0 Many Ghanaians wondered why he would want to<br \/>\nengage in such a complex criminality. <\/p>\n<p>At the time of their first arrest, they were thought to be training<br \/>\nsome youth from that part of the country with military and police training so<br \/>\nthe \u2018newly independent Western Togoland\u2019 would have the critical complements of<br \/>\nsovereign states. <\/p>\n<p>When they were again grabbed in July 2019, the charges of<br \/>\ntreason, abetment of unlawful assembly and offensive conduct were preferred<br \/>\nagainst them until the Attorney General\u2019s intervention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Derision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A picture of Papavi and some of his members derided as his<br \/>\ncabinet went viral yesterday and continued to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Everything about them create fun among Ghanaians not so with the<br \/>\nintelligence community which is watching their movements now that the leader<br \/>\nhimself is yet to be nabbed.<\/p>\n<p>He was whisked away in a waiting car as soon as he declared<br \/>\nWestern Togoland independent. For many, that was the time the security agents<br \/>\nshould have picked him up not when he has gone into hiding. <\/p>\n<p>While some think he is seeking shelter in the house of persons sympathetic to the cause of the Western Togoland in the outskirts of Ho, others think he could be on the fringes of the frontiers between Togo and Ghana. <\/p>\n<p><strong>By A.R. Gomda<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT LARGE! Charles Kudjordjie aka Papavi Eleven secessionists whose leader declared independence of a so-called Western Togoland in Ho last Saturday have been arrested in the Volta Regional capital. Five of them have already appeared in a Ho Circuit Court and are now on remand. 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