{"id":324684,"date":"2017-06-02T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324684"},"modified":"2017-06-02T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T06:00:35","slug":"things-you-didnt-know-about-capt-maxwell-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324684","title":{"rendered":"Things you didn’t know about Capt. Maxwell Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Captain Maxwell Mahama<\/a><\/strong>‘s<\/span>\u00a0death has undoubtedly caused great pain to many Ghanaians especially considering the manner in which he died.<\/p>\n

A few people who have had personal encounters with the deceased military man have tried to recount fond memories of him and what they know about him.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”JOewnIkVBMaVEfr5fWFRLkyZR9yvOAcM”]But what more do we know about Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama?<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> He was born in 1985 and was 31 years old.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> He was born to a military officer<\/strong><\/a><\/span> [his father \u2013 3rd Infantry battalion Capt. Chubby Adam Mahama (RTD)] whose father was also a military officer.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> He attended Services Basic School and John Teye Memorial School and Akosombo International for his basic education.<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> He is an old student [Old Saint] of Saint John School, Sekondi\u00a0[Completed in 2004].<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> He joined the Military after Senior High School.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> He enrolled and studied Political Science at the University of Ghana [Accra City Campus]<\/p>\n

7.<\/strong> He completed his first Masters\u2019 degree program after his BA degree.<\/p>\n

8.<\/strong> He had enrolled in an MSc Criminology program in 2015 [Distance Learning] at the University of Leicester and was due to\u00a0due to graduate at this summer\u2019s degree ceremonies.<\/p>\n

9.<\/strong> He got married to Barbara in August 2012.<\/p>\n

10.<\/strong> The couple has two children.<\/p>\n

11.<\/strong> He loves to play tennis and does so at the professional level<\/p>\n

12.<\/strong> He is peace loving and often prefers dialogue in addressing situations according to his father.<\/p>\n

13.<\/strong> He had just completed an exam to be promoted to the rank of a \u2018Major\u2019.<\/p>\n

14.<\/strong> He is a nephew to former President John Dramani Mahama<\/p>\n

The deceased, Captain Maxwell\u00a0Adam Mahama, was lynched with parts of his body burnt by some residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Upper West Denkyira District of the Central Region.<\/p>\n

Different accounts have been given about how he actually died on the fateful day of Monday, 29th May, 2017.<\/p>\n

Initial reports said he was mistaken for an armed robber by residents after he was seen jogging in civilian clothes with a gun on him.<\/p>\n

Later, reports suggested he was attacked and killed by the townsfolk who identified him as a soldier deployed to stop them from undertaking illegal small-scale mining in the area.<\/p>\n

Seven persons are currently standing trial for their suspected roles in the murder.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

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

The late Captain Maxwell Mahama‘s\u00a0death has undoubtedly caused great pain to many Ghanaians especially considering the manner in which he died. A few people who have had personal encounters with the deceased military man have tried to recount fond memories of him and what they know about him. [contextly_sidebar id=”JOewnIkVBMaVEfr5fWFRLkyZR9yvOAcM”]But what more do we know […]<\/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":[11],"tags":[7553,3,4295],"class_list":["post-324684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-captain-maxwell-mahama","tag-ghana-news","tag-university-of-leicester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324684","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=324684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}