{"id":325692,"date":"2017-06-05T17:28:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T17:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=325692"},"modified":"2017-06-05T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T17:28:28","slug":"34-suspects-remanded-over-capt-mahamas-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=325692","title":{"rendered":"34 suspects remanded over Capt. Mahama&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Central District court 3, has remanded into police custody 34 suspects for their alleged \u00a0roles in the horrendous murder of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, including 4 women and 2 nursing mothers, have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-325699\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Suspect-2.jpg\" alt=\"suspect-2\" width=\"744\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;S8tD58vTvo4KCdWMDGkwr9kz5iThOnLf&#8221;]State Prosecutor,George Ameke, presented the facts of the case, and prayed the court to remand the suspects until the next adjourned \u00a0date of June 21, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, would enable them continue their\u00a0\u00a0investigations into the gruesome murder. This brings to 41 the number of suspects who have been remanded so far.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, seven other suspects who were arrested in connection with the murder were also remanded.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased, Captain Maxwell Mahama, an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, is said to have been on his daily jogging routine on Monday [May 29], when some angry youth of the town attacked him, allegedly on suspicion of being an armed robber.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-325701\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Suspect-4.jpg\" alt=\"suspect-4\" width=\"757\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was beaten to death, with part of his body burnt.<\/p>\n<p>The family of the late military captain has announced that his burial will take place on Friday, June 9, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Duke Mensah Opoku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Central District court 3, has remanded into police custody 34 suspects for their alleged \u00a0roles in the horrendous murder of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama. The suspects, including 4 women and 2 nursing mothers, have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;S8tD58vTvo4KCdWMDGkwr9kz5iThOnLf&#8221;]State Prosecutor,George Ameke, presented the facts of the case, [&hellip;]<\/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":[7589,3,4195,2387,7855],"class_list":["post-325692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-capt-mahama","tag-ghana-news","tag-mob-justice","tag-murder","tag-remand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325692","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=325692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}