President Akufo-Addo has commiserated with the family of the military officer grisly murdered in Denkyira Boase in the Central Region, pledging to hound the perpetrators.
The officer named as Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents of the Denkyira Boase Township on suspicion of being an armed robber. He was a military officer with the 5th Infantry Batallion (5BN) at Burma Camp in Accra but on detachment duties there where he met his untimely death.
Capt. Mahama who is the commander of the area military detachment, according to his subordinates, was seen jogging along the main road and as he stopped by to ask some women for directions, the women saw a pistol on him.
Alarmed by the pistol on him, the women mistook him for an armed robber thereby alerting their assembly member who allegedly organised some men to lynch him and even burnt him in the process.
Their action is said to have been influenced by recent robbery attacks in the area with a recent one being a day before as the people in the mining town have been subjected to some serious robbery attacks.
Capt. Mahama was not in uniform when the incident happened.
Distraught by the news of the gruesome murder of the young capt. Akufo-Addo in a series of tweets assured that:
My condolences to the family of Captain Maxwell Mahama on their tragic loss. (1/3)— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) May 30, 2017
I assure them that the perpetrators of this heinous crime will be arrested and dealt with in accordance with the laws of our country. (2/3)— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) May 30, 2017
No one involved in his murder will go free. (3/3)— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) May 30, 2017
My heart goes out to my brother, Capt. Chubby Adam Mahama (Rtd.) on the murder of his son, Capt. Maxwell Mahama. #RestinPeaceMaxwell.— John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) May 30, 2017
And my condolences to the wife of Capt. Maxwell Mahama, his young children & to his mother on the loss of her only son. #RestinPeaceMaxwell— John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) May 30, 2017
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