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Former President JJ Rawlings has described the ghastly murder of a service man by civilians in Denkyira-Obuasi as “an act of cruelty.” Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched Monday morning for being allegedly mistaken as an armed robber. “Your loss is a loss to the whole country. Your husband, son and brother lost his life serving his country,” the former military ...

I have yet to pore over the full details of what President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had to say about the tragic early-morning lynching of Capt. Maxwell Mahama, of the 5th Battalion of Infantry, in the northwestern enclave’s township of Denkyira-Obuasi (or Boase, in some news reports) in the Central Region (See “Lynched Army Captain Was Protecting Illegal Chinese Miners – ...

Seven persons have sustained serious burns after a gas explosion at Asante Akyem Agogo in the Ashanti Region Tuesday morning. An Eyewitness Seth Amoako narrating the incident to Adom News said the explosion occurred at a gas filling station. It is unclear what might have led to the explosion but residents say a leaking gas tank caught fire when a ...

The Attorney General, Gloria Akufo has confirmed that her office indeed ordered the entering of a nolle prosequi in the ongoing trial of the suspected killers of former Abuakwa North Member of Parliament (MP), Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu. The two men linked to the murder of the late MP were Tuesday morning discharged by an Accra High Court. The two were ...

News of the murder of a Ghanaian soldier, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama has shocked the entire country on Tuesday morning. Adam Mahama was the victim of mob justice by a group of residents in a town in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region. He was lynched to death and his body burned by residents who claim he ...

Former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has called for calm and restraint as the security agencies investigate the unfortunate lynching of a serving military officer at Denkyira-Obuasi. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the former President expressed his sincere condolences to the wife, family and the unit of the late Captain Maxwell Mahama for their unfortunate loss. “Your loss ...

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 ...