Iron ore discovered in Oti Region belongs to us – Western Togolanders

has been drawn to some publications making rounds on various media

platforms which the Council has sighted on the announcement of the

government of Ghana on the purported discovery of IRON ORE in commercial

quantities in the Oti region and the government's move to leverage on

Ghana's LITHIUM deposits to start manufacturing batteries locally for

which the PLC wishes to react accordingly as follows:

1.

First of all we wish to state that there's nothing like Oti region

where the so-called discovery was said to have been made. That territory

does not belong to the Gold Coast or the republic of Ghana but is a

bonafide territory of Western Togoland, and therefore Ghana has no

business whatsoever to trespass into that territory. Indeed the people

of Western Togoland have long been aware of the deposits of iron ore in

commercial quantities in that portion of their territory and so this

announcement by the republic of Ghana about the discovery of the

minerals was nothing new to the people of Western Togoland.

2.

Indeed the UN charter on Trust Territories forbids the exploitation of

mineral deposits by Ghana in Western Togoland (See the UN charter on

Trust Territories below) and as there is no formal agreement between

the two nations since the Union which should have addressed these issues

was never established, there could never have been any grounds upon

which Ghana should be exploiting mineral deposits in Western Togoland

leading to this so-called discovery. This action by the government of

Ghana should be condemned in no uncertain terms by the international

community and Ghana must be cautioned to refrain from any such exploits

going forward.

3. That the LITHIUM which Ghana

hopes to mine as raw material for the manufacture of batteries locally

is also deposited in commercial quantities under the Adaklu mountain a

territory also in Western Togoland which also Ghana is forbidden by

international statutes from exploiting.

4. The

impunity with which Ghana has over the years handled the Western

Togoland problem is giving birth to the second school of thought. Before

the invasion of the colonial imperialists subsequently resulting in the

annexation of Western Togoland to the Gold Coast or Ghana after Britain

and her Collaborators in the UN used some Machiavellian antics to

achieve their diabolical plans. This second school which is not the

position of the PLC, They believe that the people of Western Togoland

are tired of being treated as second-class citizens in their own nation

by the government of Ghana. They also believe that these artificial

barriers erected by Britain and France to separate the two TOGOLANDS

should be removed so they can dwell together in unity and peace for

accelerated development of their nations if Ghana continually refuses to

implement the Union the people of Western Togoland voted for in the May

9, 1956 plebiscite.

A case in point was that of Eastern and

Western Germany which were separated by the Berlin wall also known as

the iron curtain during world war II. The people have realised the folly

of this wall that separated them, pulled it down and united for a

common national agenda and the rest is history.

We conclude by

passionately appealing to any investors both local and foreign who may

want to enter into any agreement with the government of Ghana for the

mining of any natural resources under the earth in Western Togoland to

tread cautiously as Ghana has no agreement with Western Togoland to that