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The Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, on Tuesday, laid before parliament, the Major Mahama\u00a0Trust Fund Bill, which would give the legal backing for the establishment of a fund<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to cater for the wife and two children of the Late Major Maxwell Mahama<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Major Mahama, who was lynched under bizarre circumstances at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region in May 2017, was part of a task-force deployed to root out\u00a0illegal mining in the area.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”bEwWBtqrNpAQtvgDgMRdn8iuY18Qbhrs”]President Akufo-Addo,\u00a0 following the incident, pledged to establish a Memorial Trust Fund with a seed money of GH\u00a2 500,000 in honour of the officer.<\/p>\n

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The late Major Maxwell Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, in an interaction with the media after laying the bill, said,\u00a0\u201cthe objective of the Fund is essentially to take care of his family and their welfare; nothing more, nothing less. …it has trustees, headed by the Minister for Defence, and then four other members including the Chairman of the Committee on Defence and Interior in Parliament, and then the Ranking Member on the Committee on Defence and Interior, then the former government statistician, Madam Grace Bediako, and the Tumu\u00a0Chief, because Major Mahama hails from Tumu. His father hails from there. We would be going out to source private money into the fund, but until then, we\u2019re just dealing with public funds that\u2019s why we are in parliament to ensure that we do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has since referred the bill it to the Finance Committee as well as the Defence and Interior Committees of Parliament for consideration and subsequent report to the plenary.<\/p>\n

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

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