{"id":334410,"date":"2017-07-06T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=334410"},"modified":"2017-07-06T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T12:19:18","slug":"13-suspects-in-major-mahamas-murder-discharged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/13-suspects-in-major-mahamas-murder-discharged\/","title":{"rendered":"13 suspects in Major Mahama’s murder discharged"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Accra Magistrate court has discharged thirteen suspects allegedly involved in the lynching of the military officer, Major Maxwell Mahama.<\/p>\n

The thirteen are part of an initial 32 charged with murder during the last hearing of the case a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n

Their discharge followed a decision by the state to have them released.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”fUCjWqyJnDo6R17B7fUi2SXgR0WZ375F”]According to the prosecution their investigations into the matter informed the decision.<\/p>\n

He also told the court that the state intends to use some of the discharged suspects as witnesses in the case.<\/p>\n

The rest of the nineteen suspects which include one woman are still facing the charges of murder and conspiracy to with murder.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 13 other suspects are currently on the run.<\/p>\n

The deceased, Major Mahama, an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, is said to have been on his daily jogging routine on Monday [May 29, 2017], when some angry youth of the town attacked him, allegedly on suspicion of being an armed robber.<\/p>\n

The Police subsequently arrested over fifty suspects<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0who had fled the town to other regions in the country.<\/p>\n

The court earlier ordered the police to relocate seventeen-year-old boy, Ebenezer Asamoah, one of the suspects\u00a0to a borstal<\/strong><\/a><\/span> home when he is remanded until the police are able to establish that he is eighteen.<\/p>\n

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

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