establishment of a fund<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to cater for the wife and two children of the\u00a0Late\u00a0soldier.<\/p>\nThe Finance Committee, as well as the Defence and Interior Committees of Parliament, deliberated on the Bill before a\u00a0report was made to the plenary.<\/p>\n
Major Mahama, who was lynched 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
The gruesome murder of an officer on duty, who was mistaken for a thief, shook the entire nation, and rekindled the debate on what has become known as mob justice and the need to end it.<\/p>\nMajor Mahama is survived by a wife and two kids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFollowing the death, the government announced the setting up of a memorial Trust Fund with a seed money of GH\u00a2500,000 to support the education\u00a0of Major Mahama’s children.<\/p>\n
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