The Police Command in Jasikan, on Tuesday, rescued three Togolese soldiers who were reportedly attacked by residents after they attempted to arrest a dissident who had escaped from Togo to Ghana.
Indications so far are that Ghana security services were unaware of the Togolese soldiers’ presence on Ghanaian soil.
The Volta Regional Police Commander, Francis Ebenezer Doku told Citi News that eight Togolese soldiers had crossed to a village called Amoako in the Jasikan District with the intention of arresting a dissident who was wanted in Togo.
But the community did not take kindly to their actions and rounded three of them up, tying one of them to a tree.
” …In the process, five of the soldiers bolted back to Togo leaving the three behind and the indigenes got hold of them and attacked them. In the process, one of them was tied to a tree with a nylon rope,” DCOP Doku said.
Upon the intervention of the Jasikan Police command and the DCE for Jasikan, Mr. Aziale, the Togolese officials were rescued and handed over to their Togolese unit commander, who had traced his men to the Jasikan Police Station and requested their return.
DCOP Ebenezer Doku told Citi News he has informed the Ghana Office of Interpol to get their Togolese counterparts to observe the UN convention on the arrest of citizens outside their sovereign state.
The three Togolese soldiers since have been escorted to the border to ensure their safety.
Source: citi
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I CAN'T JUST IMAGINE THE LAPSES IN THE SECURITY OF THIS COUNTRY. WERE THE TOGOLESE SOLDIERS IN MILITARY UNIFORM OR IN MOFTY? IF THEY WERE IN MILITARY UNIFORM THEN THEY WERE DISSIDENTS THEMSELVES IN GHANA SINCE THEY HAD NO AUTHORITY TO BE IN GHANA IN MILITARY UNIFORM. IF THAT IS THE CASE THE POLICE COMMANDER (DCOP DOKU) ACTED WRONGLY BY HANDING THEM OVER TO THEIR TOGOLESE COMMANDER. IN THAT RESPECT THE POLICE COMMANDER (DCOP DOKU) ERRED AND I THINK HE SHOULD ANSWER FOR THE SECURITY LAPSE. THE INTERRIOR MINISTER, MY GOOD FRIEND AMBROSE DERY, A VERY RESPECTFUL CLASS A LAWYER SHOULD HAVE BEEN INFORMED AND HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN HOW TO HANDLE THE SITUATION. NEXT TIME COTE D'IVOIRE SOLDIERS OR BURKINA FASO SOLDIERS WILL ENTER GHANA WITH THE INTENTION OF SPYING ON OUR (GHANA) SECURITY BUT WOULD HAVE USED ANOTHER EXCUSE AS A MEANS OF GETTING THROUGH WITH THEIR PLANS. I AM SAD THAT I AM NOT SAFE IN THIS COUNTRY CALLED GHANA. I WISH I HAD THE POWER TO CALL FOR THEIR (TOGOLESE SOLDIERS) RETURN TO GHANA TO FACE THE LAW FOR ENTRYING GHANA ILLEGALLY WHEN THEY ARE EXPECTED TO KNOW BETTER. THE CITIZENS OF AMOAKO ACTED BETTER IN TE INTEREST OF GHANA THAN WHAT THE POLICE COMMANDER DID IN MY OPINION.
DCOP DOKU WELL DONE