{"id":325728,"date":"2017-06-06T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=325728"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T06:00:02","slug":"govt-announces-gh%c2%a2500000-trust-fund-for-major-mahamas-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=325728","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t announces GH\u00a2500,000 Trust Fund for Major Mahama’s kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government has announced the setting up of a memorial Trust Fund with a seed money of GH\u00a2500,000 to support the education\u00a0of the children of \u00a0<\/strong>Major Maxwell Mahama<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>who was killed in the line of duty at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region.<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo announced the package when he visited the family on Monday [June 5], as it observed\u00a0a week of the military man\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”kXTxarbxg2cg5Wf2zvD05Xe45LKKGpol”]According to the president, the fund is specifically to take care of Major Mahama\u2019s wife and two children.<\/p>\n

He also pledged a personal donation of GH\u00a250,000 to the fund, which will have as part of its trustees Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, and former government\u00a0statistician, Grace Bediako.<\/p>\n

Other dignitaries who accompanied the president were Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo, Minister for Defense Dominic Nitiwul, National Security Minister Kan Dapaah and Trade Minister Alan Kyeremanten.<\/p>\n

Describing Major Mahama as a national hero, Nana Akufo-Addo added that, a state burial will be held for the soldier.<\/p>\n

He also noted that, the family\u2019s request that a monument is built to remind Ghanaians of the incident and the need to end the act of mob justice, will be granted.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Nana Akufo-Addo has approved a recommendation from the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. O.B. Akwa that the late Captain Mahama be promoted to the rank of Major.<\/p>\n

The deceased, an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, was lynched and partly burnt by some youth of Denenkyira-Obuasi in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region on Monday, May 29, 2017, on suspicion that he was an armed robber.<\/p>\n

About 41 people have been remanded in police custody<\/strong><\/a><\/span> over their alleged involvement in the gruesome killing of the officer.<\/p>\n

The family has set June 9, as the date for the burial of Captain Adams Mahama.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

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

The government has announced the setting up of a memorial Trust Fund with a seed money of GH\u00a2500,000 to support the education\u00a0of the children of \u00a0Major Maxwell Mahama,\u00a0who was killed in the line of duty at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. President Akufo-Addo announced the package when he visited the family on Monday [June 5], […]<\/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":[8,7570,3,7859],"class_list":["post-325728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-akufo-addo","tag-captain-mahama","tag-ghana-news","tag-major-mahama-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325728","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=325728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}