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One-week celebration held for murdered soldier [Video]
Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama was lynched on Monday, May 29, 2017 by residents of Denkyira Obuasi on suspicion that he was an armed robber.
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Former government officials from the John Mahama-led administration including Ms Hanna Tetteh, former Foreign Affairs Minister, former Gender Minister, Nana Oye Lithur, and Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Ms Dzifa Ablah Gomashie were present at the ceremony.
Personnel from national security including the immediate past Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), Air Marshall Samson-Oje were also at the residence of the murdered soldier.
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Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama was lynched on Monday, May 29, 2017 by residents in a town in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region.
He was killed on suspicion of being an armed robber.
Meanwhile, the Denkyira Traditional Council has performed rituals to purify the community and placate the gods following the lynching of the soldier.
The chiefs, clad in funeral clothes also sacrificed a lamb at the spot where the deceased soldier was murdered.
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The purification rights are meant to ward off any curse the soldier’s death might bring to the area.
Police have so far arrested a total of 42 persons in connection with the murder of the soldier, Captain Maxwell Mahama.
Video below shows former government officials at the residence of Captain Mahama:
Video Credit: Nana Oye Lithur
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