No lessons learned after Maj. Mahama's death – Father

General News of Thursday, May 30, 2019

Source: kasapafmonline.com

2019-05-30

Capt. Dennis Mahama, Father of the murdered Maj. Maxwell Mahama has said that he feels very sad that he has two years of gruesome killing of his son, Ghanaians have not learned any lesson as regards mob justice.

Major Mahama, who was the commander of the Military detachment stationed at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region puts his untimely death on the 29th of May 2017 Denkyira Obuasi armed robber.

Official Police account that he went jogging along the Diaso-Dominase-Ayanfu stretch when a mob attacked him upon suspicion that he was an armed robber.

Two years after Major Mahama 's death, his father holds the view that his son has died in vain as Ghanaians continues to lynch the people they suspect to be criminals.

Speaking to Kasapa News, Capt. Mahama said he thought that Maj. Mahama would have been the last victim of mob justice, but it had not been the case.

"Ghanaians have not learned any lessons from the gruesome killing of Maj. Mahama, just a month after he was buried another innocent Ghanaian was lynched in the same way as Maj. Mahama and such condemnable acts continues. How can we learn lessons with this kind of attitude? Just Major Mahama 's death, it' s all over the place that we need to stay in touch. As a country, we only say that justice should never happen again. As a country, we have to walk the talk. "

Meanwhile, a 20-foot monument in the late afternoon at the Airport Roundabout Hills was unveiled on Wednesday 29th May, in commemoration of two years of his death.

Besides the statue, a trust fund has been set up by the government to cater to Mahama's major wife and children.

President Nana Akufo-Addo also made a personal donation of GH ¢ 50,000 towards the fund.

The monument is in line with a request from the family of the late military officer.

Major Mahama's family made the request known during a shorty call on the president in 2017, where they expressed the hope that the book would serve as a reminder of the tragedy and a deterrent to the canker of justice mob in Ghana.