Capt. Mahama to be buried Friday – family spokespersons

Captain Maxwell Mahama, who was lynched to death by a mob in Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, will be buried on Friday, the family spokespersons have said.

Zakaria Sakara and WOII Ibrahim Samed said a family meeting has been scheduled to discuss how the burial service will be organised.

He also disclosed that the family is planning three funerals for the fallen soldier: one in Accra, one in Bole, the paternal grandmother’s hometown in the Northern Region and the last one at Tumu, the paternal grandfather’s hometown in the Upper West Region.

They made the disclosure when the Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Oquaye visited the family to sympathise with them.
Capt. Mahama was lynched on Monday, May 29 after he was mistaken for a thief.
A snail seller raised a “false alarm” about the identity of the young military officer after she saw a pistol on him.
Suspecting he was an armed robber, and two days after the community was attacked by armed robbers, he told the Assemblyman of the Denkyira Obuasi, who also mobilised the townsfolk to lynch him.
On the day he was murdered, Capt. Mahama went jogging to familiarise himself with the area after he was sent there to replace a platoon commander, the military have explained.

According to the IGP, the young military officer stopped to buy snails, and when he took money from his pocket to pay for the snails, the trader saw the pistol and informed the assemblyman of Denkyira Obuasi that the military officer was an armed robber.

Without verifying the claims of the snail seller, the assemblyman and armed residents accosted the military officers and lynched him using cement blocks, clubs among others.
So far, the police have arrested 18 people in connection with the murder.