Akufo-Addo promotes Captain Mahama to Major; Sets up Gh¢500k Fund
The Commander-In-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces Nana Akufo-Addo has
posthumously promoted the late Captain Maxwell Mahama to the rank of a
major.
The promotion was based on recommendation of the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. O.B Akwa.
Major Mahama was lynched by residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the
Central region on Monday May 29, 2017 having been mistaken as an armed
robber.
Commiserating with the family of the late soldier at Burma Camp
Monday, President Akufo-Addo also announced a Memorial Fund with a seed
money of Gh¢500,000. He promised to make a personal donation of
Gh¢50,000 to the Fund, which will be managed by former and present
public officials to support the widow and the two children.
The president also disclosed a national monument will be erected in
honour of the 32-year-old commander who died in the line of duty as he
was stationed at Denkyira-Oboase to put a stop to illegal mining.
President Akufo-Addo stated a State Burial will be held for the fallen soldier on Friday, June 9, 2017.
He promised the family everything will be done to bring the
perpetrators to book. “That is the least I can do,” the president
opined.
Nana Akufo-Addo’s high powered government delegation to the residence
of the late soldier included senior minister Yaw Osafo Maafo, Trade
Minister Alan Kyeremanten, Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul, National
Security Minister Kan Dapaah, and Women and Children’s Affairs Minister
Otiko Afisa Djaba.
The police have since arrested 42 suspects in connection with the lynching. Thirty-two of them have been remanded and the case will be recalled on June 21, 2017.
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