Government will continue to support late Maj. Mahama’s family – AG

The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has disclosed that the government will continue to officer support to the family of the slain military officer, Major Maxwell Mahama.

I mean that’s just the little that we can do as a nation and we will continue to do that,” the Attorney General said when he received a delegation from late Major Mahama’s family at his office following the successful prosecution of 12 out of the 14 persons convicted and jailed for life over the soldier’s gruesome murder.

Veronica Bamford, mother of the late Major Maxwell Adams Mahama on her part paid emotional tribute on how she had had to deal with the death of her son.

The High Court in Accra on Monday, January 29, 2024 sentenced William Baah, the Assemblyman of Denkyira-Obuasi and 11 others into life imprisonment after they were found guilty for their respective roles in the lynching the late military officer Major Maxwell Mahama.

EIB Network Legal Affairs Correspondent, Murtala Inusah, reports that the mother of the late Major Mahama punched the air in satisfaction after Justice Owusu imposed the life sentence on them as prescribed by law.

The facts, presented by the prosecution, were that Major Mahama was the commander of a military detachment stationed at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District in the Central Region to check illegal mining activities.

It added that the mob met Major Mahama near the Denkyira Obuasi cemetery and, without giving him the opportunity to explain and identify himself, “attacked him with implements such as clubs, cement blocks and machetes, killed him and burnt a portion of his body”.

Source: ghanaweb.com