Law firm for the 31 suspects arrested in relationship with the revolt that ensued in the Volta Area previous Friday explained his purchasers are victims of wrongful arrest.
Theophilus Donkor mentioned the individuals experienced no hand in the unrest which resulted in the dying of a single man or woman through which streets were blocked impeding totally free flow of targeted traffic in and out of the area.
The suspects are alleged to be customers of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) secessionists, who experienced also attacked the Aveyime and Mepe police stations in the North Tongu District demanding that the area be an autonomous nation known as Western Togoland.
They have been slapped with five rates by condition prosecutors at an Accra Circuit courtroom on Monday.
The expenses relate to conspiracy to dedicate criminal offense, particularly to show up at a conference of the prohibited organisation, to participate in a marketing campaign of a prohibited organisation and rioting with weapons.
Their pleas have been not taken as point out prosecutor ASP Sylvester Asare informed the court the point out wishes them remanded into custody to support investigations.
But talking on Pleasure FM’s Top rated Tale, the lawyer argued that several of the folks in law enforcement custody were being oblivious of the going on when they have been picked up.
He told Evans Mensah that some of them have been going about their normal obligations at the time the safety operations had been carried out.
“These 31 individuals that are before the courtroom have hardly ever experienced any connection with the secessionists and nobody has contacted them.
“Some of them do not even know that the exists a team these kinds of as Western Togoland or a secessionist team like that exists because they are illiterates , some are lay folks,” he stated.
He discovered that “the only lady among the them was 19 decades who is an apprentice going about her usual responsibilities when she was apprehended.”
Law firm for the accused persons manufactured an software for bail but this was turned down by the court docket.
They are to re-appear in court docket on October 13.
