Another suspected Major Mahama killer arrested at Denkyira Obuasi
The police have nabbed another person alleged to have participated in the lynching of Major Maxwell Adams Mahama at Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region
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Bismarck Abanga becomes the 22nd person arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of the military officer.
He was reportedly arrested by the police when he returned to Denkyira Obuasi from his hideout on September 14, 2017.
Others facing the law for the alleged murder of Major Mahama include the Assembly Member for Denkyira Obuasi, William Baah, and one woman, Vivian Asahene.
All of them have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
The police are still hunting for 11 people who are also suspected to have participated in the lynching of the military officer.
Court hearing
Abanga was last Tuesday hauled before the Accra Central District Court and provisionally charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder.
At the hearing, the prosecutor, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr George Amegah, prayed the court to remand him in police custody.
The court, presided over by Mr Joshua Caleb Abaidoo, remanded Abanga to repaper with the other 21 accused persons on September 25, 2017.
Facts
The facts, as presented by DSP Amegah, 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.
At 8 a.m. on May 29, 2017, Major Mahama, wearing civilian clothes but with his sidearm, left his detachment base for a 20-kilometre jogging.
The prosecutor said at 9:25 a.m., the military officer got to the outskirts of Denkyira Obuasi, where a number of women were selling foodstuffs by the roadside.
He stopped to interact with the women and even bought some snails, which he left in their custody to be taken on his return from jogging.
While he was taking out money from his pocket to pay for the snails, the woman from whom he had bought the snails and a few others saw Major Mahama’s sidearm tucked to his waist.
Soon after he left, one of the women telephoned the assembly member for Denkyira Obuasi to report what they had seen.
“Without verifying the information, the assembly member mobilised the accused persons and others, some now at large, to attack the military officer,’’ the prosecutor said.
He said 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.”
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