{"id":324706,"date":"2017-06-02T09:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324706"},"modified":"2017-06-02T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T09:45:09","slug":"asp-effia-tenge-in-solidarity-with-our-military-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/asp-effia-tenge-in-solidarity-with-our-military-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"ASP Effia Tenge: In solidarity with our military counterparts [Article]"},"content":{"rendered":"
The nation was stunned by the gruesome murder of a young promising soldier, Captain Maxwell A. Mahama on the 29th<\/sup> May, 2017 by locals of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central region. \u00a0My deepest condolences to the bereaved family, especially the wife and children, the 5 Battalion of Infantry and the entire Ghana Armed Forces.<\/p>\n The news came to some of us as the usual sharing of disturbing photographs which sometimes lack credibility on social media. Actually, the pictures posted were quite frightening to sensitive viewers let alone its belief. It was also difficult for anyone to recognize the deceased even if you knew him, due to the state in which his face was brutally disfigured. Well, even if it happened, definitely not in Ghana.<\/p>\n I consoled myself with those thoughts. Eventually, the news of the demise of the young soldier appeared to be true. Media houses broke the news the next morning with confirmation from relevant authorities.<\/p>\n The pain of the public was heightened as live photos of the handsome Military Captain went viral on the same social media, juxtaposed with those gory images. Coming to terms with the issue has been very difficult for some of us, since we served on the Regional Election Security Task Force committee, in the 2016 General Elections. The last time we worked together was in a Joint Police \u2013Military operations in the recent Agbobloshie disturbances which claimed a life.<\/p>\n Captain Mahama may have fallen but never forgotten. What kind of officer was he? After a commensurate visit to the 5BN, where Captain Mahama directly worked and the family, I proceeded to find out more about who he really was in the regimental circles and he was everything you will imagine him to be.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was a very active officer whose discretion I always trust and anytime I give him an assignment I get the desired results\u201d those were the exact words of 5BN Commander, LT Col. Timothy Ba-Taa-Banah, expressed with a heavy heart. He asked repeated questions that I wished I had answered to. \u201cI have questioned our societal values since this tragic incident, was there no opinion leader? No retired public servant? No Imam? No fetish priest? No Pastor or Catechists? No Elder? Etc.\u201d<\/p>\n The commander asked. Lt. Col Ba-Taa-Banah was the late Captain\u2019s instructor during his Basic Officer Training program at the Military Academy and he served directly under his command after Completion, so he\u2019s known everything about his transition from civilian to comrade-in-arms.<\/p>\n Captain Maxwell Adams Mahama joined the Ghana Armed Forces in 2005 and commissioned on the 7th<\/sup> of September, 2007. He rose through the ranks to a Captain and was still climbing the regimental ladder for greater prospects in future. He commanded, administered, trained and deployed not less than 105 other ranks under him.<\/p>\n His leadership qualities and professional accolades overtime were in no doubt. He had successfully completed and passed his promotional exams pending promotions to the rank of a Major in the Army until his duty call to Denkyira- Obuasi on the 9th<\/sup> May, 2017.<\/p>\n