A retired military officer, Captain Joel Sowu, has said Germany should be blamed for the recent secessionist brouhaha that has reared its head in Ghana’s Volta Region.
Three secessionist groups, including the Western Togoland Restoration Front and Home Study Group Foundation (HSGF), are advocating the independence of the Volta Region.
Last week, members of HSGF blocked roads leading to the region, hoisted their flags, captured three Police officers and exchanged gunfire with security agencies as parts of agitation for independence from Ghana.
The security agencies, however, have noted that they have the situation under control.
In Captain Sowu’s view, however, the Germans are to blame for the current troubles in the Volta Reigon.
Narrating the history behind the agitations on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Class91.3FM on Monday, 28 September 2020, Captain Sowu told show host Abdul Karim Ibrahim that: “The truth of the matter is, the problem we are having now is Germany”.
“Germany is the cause and the source of the problem we are having now”, he insisted.
“Before independence, French Togoland was part of what we now call Western Togoland. It was one country. When Germany lost the WWII, they decided among the allied troops, to share German colonies.
“The French Togoland, together with the Western Togoland, was one country and the Gold Coast was one country…So, they divided them up and Germany itself was divided into East and West Germany but today there is no East Germany, there is no west Germany, there is only one Germany.
“It was after WWII that the dismemberment of Africa happened. If you go to Cameroon, you have the same problem there because it was a German colony. So, you’ll find that in 1956, before Ghana gained independence the British did not know what to do with the British mandated Togoland or a trust territory…” he narrated.
Three secessionist groups, including the Western Togoland Restoration Front and Home Study Group Foundation (HSGF), are advocating the independence of the Volta Region.
Last week, members of HSGF blocked roads leading to the region, hoisted their flags, captured three Police officers and exchanged gunfire with security agencies as parts of agitation for independence from Ghana.
The security agencies, however, have noted that they have the situation under control.
In Captain Sowu’s view, however, the Germans are to blame for the current troubles in the Volta Reigon.
Narrating the history behind the agitations on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Class91.3FM on Monday, 28 September 2020, Captain Sowu told show host Abdul Karim Ibrahim that: “The truth of the matter is, the problem we are having now is Germany”.
“Germany is the cause and the source of the problem we are having now”, he insisted.
“Before independence, French Togoland was part of what we now call Western Togoland. It was one country. When Germany lost the WWII, they decided among the allied troops, to share German colonies.
“The French Togoland, together with the Western Togoland, was one country and the Gold Coast was one country…So, they divided them up and Germany itself was divided into East and West Germany but today there is no East Germany, there is no west Germany, there is only one Germany.
“It was after WWII that the dismemberment of Africa happened. If you go to Cameroon, you have the same problem there because it was a German colony. So, you’ll find that in 1956, before Ghana gained independence the British did not know what to do with the British mandated Togoland or a trust territory…” he narrated.
