{"id":323563,"date":"2017-05-30T06:28:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T06:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=323563"},"modified":"2017-05-30T06:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T06:28:36","slug":"armed-forces-begins-investigation-into-murder-of-capt-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=323563","title":{"rendered":"Armed Forces begins investigation into murder of Capt. Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ghana Armed Forces has commenced investigations into the murder of one of its personnel deployed\u00a0to Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region.<\/p>\n

The soldier, Captain Maxwell Mahama is reported to have been lynched and burnt by some youth at Diaso, a small town in the\u00a0area who mistook him for an armed robber.<\/p>\n

The incident, which happened on Monday [May 29] \u00a0morning, has sent heightened anxiety among the townsfolk after the perpetrators of the heinous\u00a0crime realised the deceased was a military man on official duty.<\/p>\n

The Armed Forces in a statement signed by the Director of Public Relations, Col. Aggrey-Quarshie said a fact-finding team led by the Chief of Army Staff is proceeding to the area to gather more information about the development.<\/p>\n

“A high-powered fact-finding team led by the Chief of the Army Staff is proceeding to the scene of the incident to ascertain the facts of the case.”<\/p>\n

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Captain Maxwell Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He said they were collaborating with the police and other security agencies to bring perpetrators to book.<\/p>\n

“GAF is working closely with the police and other security agencies to unravel the full facts of the case.”<\/p>\n

Captain Maxwell Mahama was an officer of the\u00a05 Battalion of Infantry.<\/p>\n

According to the Armed Forces, its “Initial report indicates the officer was lynched by locals of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region whilst he was jogging at about 08.30 am on Monday 29 May 2017, under circumstances yet to be verified.”<\/p>\n

“The officer was the detachment commander of our troops on operational duties in the general area.”<\/p>\n

The Armed Forces has\u00a0also urged its personnel to remain calm as the due procedure is taken to bring the perpetrators to book.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ghana Armed Forces has commenced investigations into the murder of one of its personnel deployed\u00a0to Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. The soldier, Captain Maxwell Mahama is reported to have been lynched and burnt by some youth at Diaso, a small town in the\u00a0area who mistook him for an armed robber. The incident, which happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[7244,7553,3,7555],"class_list":["post-323563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-armed-forces","tag-captain-maxwell-mahama","tag-ghana-news","tag-military-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}