{"id":326634,"date":"2017-06-09T06:05:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326634"},"modified":"2017-06-09T06:05:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T06:05:32","slug":"late-major-mahama-to-be-laid-to-rest-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326634","title":{"rendered":"Late Major Mahama to be laid to rest today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-One year old murdered soldier, Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, will be laid to rest today at the Osu Military Cemetary, after a burial service at the Forecourt of the State House.<\/p>\n<p>The State Protocol Office, which early on outlined details of the late officer\u2019s funeral service,\u00a0indicated that, the deceased will be given a state burial with \u201cfull military honours.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the burial, a vigil was held on Thursday at\u00a0Arakan Officers Mess in his memory.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Q1FLR7mqPu1XhvrWnsqiElTvfCRMXeqz&#8221;]The other burial and funeral rites as listed in the statement are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Body of deceased will be moved from 37 Military Hospital to Forecourt of State House on Friday 9<sup>th<\/sup> June 2017 at 0600 hrs for filing past. Burial Service commences at 0910 hrs.<\/li>\n<li>Procession to Osu Military Cemetery for internment after the burial service. Order of procession to the cemetery to be announced during the burial service.<\/li>\n<li>Final funeral rites to be held at the Forecourt of the State House immediately after burial<\/li>\n<li>Thanksgiving service will be held at Light House Chapel International, Qodesh, North Kaneshie-Accra on Sunday 11<sup>th<\/sup> June at 1030 hrs.<\/li>\n<li>Final funeral rites will be held at Bole fro, 13<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 15<sup>th<\/sup> June 2017 and Tumu from 16<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 18<sup>th<\/sup> June 2017 respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adam Mahama was gruesomely lynched and partly burnt by some youth of Denkyria-Obuasi in the Central Region, who claimed they thought he was an armed robber. He had gone to that part of the country on an anti-galamsey mission with other soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>About 40 persons have so far been arrested in connection with the murder to face trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monument to be erected in honour of Major Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo\u00a0has announced plans to erect a monument in honour of Major Mahama, after he posthumously promoted him from the rank of Captain.<\/p>\n<p>The President made this announcement when he visited the family of the deceased. He also announced \u00a0the setting up of a Ghc500,000 Trust Fund to cater for the education of the late military officer\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-One year old murdered soldier, Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, will be laid to rest today at the Osu Military Cemetary, after a burial service at the Forecourt of the State House. The State Protocol Office, which early on outlined details of the late officer\u2019s funeral service,\u00a0indicated that, the deceased will be given a state burial [&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":[11],"tags":[879,8007,3,464,8008],"class_list":["post-326634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-burial","tag-captain","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-major"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326634","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=326634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}