The management of the Ho
branch of the State Transport Company
(STC) has suspended all trips from the Volta Region capital,
Ho, to Accra, following an attack of its buses at the Ho terminal on Tuesday
dawn by some armed men suspected to be members of secessionist group Western
Togoland Restoration Front.
The station manager,
Richard Ahiafor told journalists that “the issues at stake now we cannot speak
to it”.
“What is showing here is
the torching of our vehicles? We have reported the matter to the police [and
the National Security. The BNI and military is also here.
“The drivers cannot drive
today. We have called off service from Ho to Accra till further notice
directives come from above.”
A group of armed
assailants suspected to be members of separatist group Western Togoland
Restoration Front went on rampage at the STC Yard and beat up a driver and
attacked about four buses, setting one completely ablaze.
A
Ho-based journalist, Richard Asiedu, told Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s Sunrise on
Tuesday that the group marched to the bus terminal from nowhere to stage their
attack, firing warning shots.
The
Ho Municipal Chief Executive Officer, Prosper Bi-Pansah, said the attackers
took them by surprise.
“They
have taken us unaware. We heard of the vantage points they targeted, the big
market, and the installations.
“So
we went round those areas to educate them to get prepared and gave our numbers
to them that they should call us immediately they see or suspect somebody but
this STC yard we didn’t come here because we didn’t know that they would attack
the place.
“There
are security patrols; the soldiers are patrolling the town. They might have
moved from the station before the attackers came here.”
Credit: 3News.com
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