Soldiers have allegedly invaded a community in Ghana and dealt mercilessly with the people after they mistakenly lynched a soldier to death.
A community member brutalized by soldiers
The Assembly Member alleged to have incited Monday's murder of
Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama in Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region has
been arrested.
Also, soldiers have allegedly beat the hell out of some of the resident alleged to have participated in the lynching of the soldier.
William Baah turned himself in to the Diaso police at exactly 3:30pm, the police have confirmed.
The late Captain Maxwell Mahama
He is currently being transported to the Regional Police Headquarters in Cape Coast to assist with investigations.
Late Captain Maxwell Mahama
was a military officer with the 5th Infantry Batallion (5BN) at Burma
Camp in Accra but on detachment duties at the Denkyira Boase of the
Central region.
Captain Mahama who is the commander of the area military detachment
according to his subordinates, was seen jogging along the main road and
as he stopped by to ask some women for directions, the women saw a
pistol on him.
The women who were alarmed by the discovery of the pistol on
Captain Mahama mistook him for an armed robber thereby alerting their
assembly member who allegedly organised some men to lynch him and even burnt him in the process.
The women’s action is said to have been influenced by recent robbery attacks in the area with a recent one being a day before.
The military officer was not in uniform when the incident happened
and is said to have pleaded with the mob not to lynch him, indicating
that he was an army officer and not a criminal, but his plea was not
taken by the mob who hit him with several objects including cement
blocks.
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