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The Minister for Defence, Mr Dominic Nitiwul has said the lynched Captain Maxwell Mahama shot and wounded one attacker in an attempt to defend himself, when he came under attack at Denkyira Obuasi and Monday. “What I can confirm to you is that he wounded somebody by shooting him in an attempt to defend himself,” the Defence Minister said in ...

Leadership of Denkyira Development Association is calling on the Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul call military personnel deployed to the troubled town to order. According to the Denkyira Development Association, the military contingent dispatched to restore order in the area have restored to physical assault of innocent residents. Scores of youth in Boase, a mining community in the Upper West Denkyira ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated emphatically that persons involved in the dastardly murder of a captain of the Ghana Armed Forces on national duties on Monday morning would not be spared. Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama was brutalised and burnt to death by a mob who claimed they mistook him for an armed robber when they saw him jogging ...

The Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has admonished the military to desist from applying brute force on residents of Diaso following the death of an officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama. The Regional Minister made the remark in a Citi News interview following the lynching of Captain Mahama, at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District on Monday. The residents reportedly ...

Several youth of Boase in the Upper West Denkyira district of the Central region have been rounded up by uniformed military men who have stormed the town over the killing of an officer, Captain Maxwell Mahama, by indegenes of the mining community. According to an army statement, about 35 troops are currently in the town to unravel the circumstances surrounding ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has presented a 19-member Cabinet to Parliament. The President had been under immense pressure from the minority to name his cabinet after he named his ministers some three months ago. Conspicuously missing from the list read by the Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Ocquaye Tuesday is the Sports Ministry which had always been part of ...

The Member of Parliament for Upper Denkyira West, Samuel Nsowa-Djan, has called on the Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Major General Obed Akwa to call some soldiers deployed to Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region to search for killers of Captain Maxwell A. Mahama, to order. Captain Mahama was lynched by irate youth of the ...

Attorney General and Minister of Justice Gloria Akuffo has said the two suspects (Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bossu) who were discharged by an Accra High Court on Tuesday 30 May after her office filed a case of nolle prosequi in the case regarding the murder of late Abuakwa North MP JB Danquah-Adu are not free at all. “We have reviewed ...

Former president John Mahama has expressed condolence to the family of the military officer ghastly killed by residents of the Denkyira Obuasi in the Central region. The officer whose name has been given us Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber. The late Captain Mahama was a military officer with the 5th Infantry ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia yesterday cautioned government appointees against abuse of government resources, stressing that the Akufo-Addo administration would not tolerate the practice. Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia yesterday cautioned government appointees against abuse of government resources, stressing that the Akufo-Addo administration would not tolerate the practice. He challenged them to rise above the status quo and focus on greater performance ...