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Security analyst, Dr. Kwesi Anning has explained that the best legacy the state could bestow the late Army captain who was lynched in the Central Region on Monday is to arrest and prosecute persons who killed him immediately. Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama of the 5th Infantry Battalion was lynched at Denkyira-Obuasi after he was mistaken for an armed robber. The ...

Ghana has not received the desired benefits from the mining of gold, Dr Ishmael Yamson, Chairman of Ishmael Yamson and Associates has observed. “We have been producing cocoa for how many years? We have been producing gold for how many years? Now, in fact, gold has become a curse because it is because of gold that all the galamsey and ...

The offices of Geo Professional Services Limited (GPS), a mining firm, at Tontokrom in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region has been ransacked with several items stolen. The action was carried out after the expatriate  managers of the company were arrested on the orders of the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, during his recent visit ...

Pressure group, Occupyghana, has issued a statement condemning the lynching of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama by a mob in Denkyira Boase and has called on Ghanaians to stand against mod justice. According to the pressure group, the practice of mob justice is, unfortunately, a rather dark side of the country’s history and believes does not seem to want to go ...

The General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev. Dr. Kwabena Opuni Frimpong has bemoaned the increasing culture of violence being witnessed in the country following the change of government. According to him, “this emergence of culture of violence is a threat to good governance and public safety.” Speaking Wednesday May 31, 2017 on Morning Starr in the wake ...

A former National Democratic Congress MP Sylvester Mensah has decried the spiraling rate of lawlessness in Ghana since the change of government. Vigilante groups linked to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been on vandalism spree, seizing state properties and going on collision course with law enforcement agencies. There are pockets of violence in parts of the country as ...

A resident of Denkyira-Boase who witnessed the mob attack that led to the death of Captain Maxwell Mahama has disclosed that he was afraid to help the distressed soldier, who was running for his life. According to Kwaku Manu, who plies an Okada in the mining town, the soldier while running away from the blood-thirsty mob, jumped onto his motorbike ...

Starr News has spotted an abandoned brand new Community Information Centre in the Bongo District of the Upper East region which is yet to be commissioned but already serves as both a massage parlour for some dating students and a looting ground for faceless criminals. The building, erected with thousands of taxpayer’s Ghana cedis on the grassy bank of a ...

The five persons arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of late Capt. Maxwell Mahama are being processed to be arraigned before court, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Authur, has disclosed. Also, he said, the police has scaled up operations in the Denkyira Obuasi Township of the Central region where the army Capt. ...

The Ghana Bar Association has condemned the killing of a military officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, in Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region and has called on the security agencies to respond to the general lawlessness prevailing in the country. A statement signed by National President Benson Nutsukpui called on the security and law enforcement ...