The two, Vikuriba Joe Zoot and Kozel Borama have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder.

[contextly_sidebar id=”pqNEjVKrBbzBtRQAKCj8CXeyseto2dLx”]The state prosecutor told the court it has sent the docket to the Attorney General for advice.

Head of the deceased’s family, Doodah Babakparabanah, said the family is looking forward to a severe punishment for the suspects.

“We did not even know we were coming to court today. The CID asked us to come so that the body of the boy will be released to us. It is not right for the young boy to be in the mortuary for long. Now that the suspects are in the custody of the Police, the law must deal with them.”

Background 

The two; Vikuriba Joe Zoot, 21, and Kozel Borama, 25, were arrested on March 7, 2018 with the human head in their possession at Ampabame near Sokoban in Kumasi.

The deceased, identified as Silas Kunsana, a twin, was picked up by the suspects at Suame, a suburb of Kumasi.

According to police, the suspects lured the deceased with Yoghurt and took him to the uncompleted building in a Taxi cab to commit the act.

The suspects approached a spiritualist, Sheik Alhaji Mohammed Maheey at Suame to buy the human head who accepted to buy the head for GHc 2,500 and secretly alerted the police.

The Police proceeded to the residence of the spiritualist at Suame Zongo and arrested the suspects with the fresh head, which was concealed in a black polythene bag.

The suspects later led police to retrieve the decapitated body at an uncompleted building on the outskirts of Sokoban.

Mother of murdered boy wants culprits beheaded

Mother of the victim has since appealed to the IGP to punish the perpetrators in equal measure.

30-year-old Janet Salifu believes this is the only remedy that will lessen her pain and give her some respite.

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The Magistrate, Kwaku Ansah, in committing the suspects, said he believed the prosecution had put forward enough evidence to prove their case against them.

[contextly_sidebar id=”RoFiQyo5DBfGPBpmX5Gr3Byioxr7Ggux”]The prosecution made the court aware of its intention to call fifteen witnesses, and present 52 different pieces of evidence as part of their case when the trial begins at the High Court.

The fourteen suspects, which include the Assembly Member of the area, were part of 52 people who were brought to the Court when the case commenced. After investigations by the police, 38 of the initial suspects were discharged by the court.

The deceased, Major Maxwell Adam 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.

According to the prosecution, he was attacked and lynched on suspicion of being an armed robber, while on his daily jogging routine on May 29, 2017, at Denkyira Obuasi.

The late military officer was in the community as part of an anti-illegal mining operation.

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The suspects were charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder when they appeared before the court on Wednesday, June 21.

[contextly_sidebar id=”j591nnfvzEXfKR8l59GzyXjDjDmI9sRM”]The Police is also on a manhunt for some eight (8) persons believed to be connected to the murder of the deceased.

They are; Yaw Amankwaah, Kwadwo Fordjour, Kwabena Kenkeba, Tikwa, Yaw Boadu, Madam Deedikor, Eric Asante a.k.a Yaw Agade and Kofi Ahenkora.

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.

Meanwhile, a District Court in Accra has ordered the police to relocate seventeen-year-old boy Ebenezer Asamoah, who is believed to be one of the suspects involved in Major Mahama’s murder.

According to the court presided over by Ebenezer Kwaku Ansah, until the police is able to establish the that the boy is eighteen, he should be sent to the borstal home during the remand period.

Some other twenty-six people who were also brought to the court on Wednesday, were discharged by the court and later rearrested by the police.

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