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General News of Monday, April 29, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-04-29
Work is currently underway for a 20-foot monument in honor of the late Major Mahama
A group called the Coalition of Youth (COLA) has issued a one-week ultimatum to President Nana Akufo-Addo to order the Ghana Armed Forces to stop erecting a statue of the late Major Maxwell Mahama on the territory of La.
Work is currently underway for a 20-foot monument in honor of the late Major Mahama at the Airport Hills roundabout.
The coalition argues that the statue of the killed soldier should instead be mounted in Denkyira Obuasi, where he was killed almost two years ago, and not on La territory.
Oscar Nii Odo Glover, president of COLA, said at a press conference at Citi News that the group would be forced to besiege the Jubilee House if the president did not heed his appeal.
"Why there? Why not the place where he died or his hometown but they send it to us because La is a trash … We tell him we do not like it and we expect him to act. He has said to the whole country that he is a president to listen. He must listen to us. Maybe in a week we should expect to hear something. We expect to see something. "
Major Maxwell Mahama was lynched on Monday, May 29, 2017 by a crowd in Denkyira-Obuasi in the central region.
He had been deployed to serve at Diaso in the central region after being lynched.
In addition to the statue, a trust fund established by the government to help the wife and children of Major Mahama.
President Nana Akufo-Addo also made a personal donation of 50,000 GH ¢ to the fund.
The monument responds to a request from the family of the deceased military officer.
Major Mahama's family made the request public during a courtesy call to the president in 2017, where she expressed hope that the monument would serve as a reminder of the tragedy and deter the chanting of the people's justice in Ghana.
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