29/09/2025
Today the 29th day of September 2025, the Ho Circuit Court has adjourned the case involving the members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation and the Republic of Ghana to 9th October 2025 again.
Brief Background.
On the 21 of November 2019 a group of HSGF members were arrested from their various homes (on that day many who went to visit Papavi Hogbedetor in his House were among those arrested).
While 7 people were initially arrested in Papavi Hogbedetor House, more others were rampantly arrested with no proper investigation regarding the crimes they are about to be accused of. Later some were left or granted police enquiry bail while the rest were arraigned before the Ho circuit court.
Ten more people were arrested from kpando Sovie and also arranged before the same court,
Pockets of arrest continue for a moment mostly ending up at the police station.
None of this arrest ever came with a warrant.
After many years of Court adjournment, the leadership of the HSGF decided to report the abuse to the UN human rights council working group on arbitrary detention.
The case was filled together with the UNPO and the working group communicated the case to the government of Ghana through the attorney general.
For a whole 12 months the State didn't enter any defense and the working group per their mode of operation passed their judgement in 2023.
The State was asked to end all Court cases, amend the prohibited organization act, and compensate the victim(s). The council also demanded a report on all this from the government.
Since the decision was passed the state of Ghana has continued to disobey the council whose charter the state has ratified.
HSGF being a law abiding and peace making foundation decided to proceed with the case to the ECOWAS COURT.
The case was filled and communicated to the State as procedure demanded, the state didn't enter their defense until the time passed seeing the court is about to proceed without them entering a defense, the AG wrote for more time, this was granted.
There was a hearing from both parties, the Court adjourned and passed their judgement, slapping the state with a fine for violating our fundamental human rights.
The Court asked the State to either prosecute the case in two weeks or release the people this was also not adhered to by the state.
The HSGF finds the judgement problematic, Ghana has entered an appeal telling the court that the case in Ho circuit court was concluded in January 2025, this was a lie because since January the Court keeps adjourning the case till today the 29th September 2025 making the 3rd time since January.
All that the HSGF and the Western Togoland people are calling for is respect for their fundamental human rights.
A country is never imposed on anyone, the 1956 plebiscite as questionable as it was, the decision was to not force the country Ghana on the Togoland people that was why the decision was for the two countries to be in Union.
We as people in Togoland cannot be stopped from revisiting the decision when things are not going on well with where we are.
It is our Infinite right to freely exercise our right to Self Determination without any repression and suppression.
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