Army chief begs soldiers to remain calm over lynched captain
The Chief of Defense Staff, Maj. Gen. Akwa, has pleaded with the aggrieved soldiers to remain calm in the wake of the gruesome lynching of
one of their colleagues, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama.
The disappointed soldiers expressed their frustrations during a meeting with the military top officials at the Army Headquarters at Burma Camp in Accra.
Most of the soldiers said they were displeased with the fact that the police was in charge of investigations into the heinous lynching of a top soldier when the army also has the military police who could effectively expedite action on the issue.
“We also have military police in the army. It's not in every instance that we have to allow the civilian police to be telling us about evidence. What other more evidence do we need from this?” one aggrieved officer asked.
“Ghana Armed Forces has the military police so we can handle our own affairs. It is not in all cases that you take to the civil police,” they stressed.
The Chief of Defense Staff in his response to his men said, “I appeal to you all to let us be firm on this issue to prove to the whole world that we're truly a professional military force.”
He asked the officers to take consolation from the assurances by the president who's the Commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces that; all perpetrators in connection with the death of Capt. Mahama will be held responsible.
The former army Captain who had been detailed to lead a military team in the fight against galamsey in the Central Region of Ghana, was lynched by a mob who mistook him for an armed robber in Denkyira Obuasi. His body was subsequently burnt by the mob.
The Ghana police have since reported the arrest of seven people as at Thursday June 1.
one of their colleagues, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama.
The disappointed soldiers expressed their frustrations during a meeting with the military top officials at the Army Headquarters at Burma Camp in Accra.
Most of the soldiers said they were displeased with the fact that the police was in charge of investigations into the heinous lynching of a top soldier when the army also has the military police who could effectively expedite action on the issue.
“We also have military police in the army. It's not in every instance that we have to allow the civilian police to be telling us about evidence. What other more evidence do we need from this?” one aggrieved officer asked.
“Ghana Armed Forces has the military police so we can handle our own affairs. It is not in all cases that you take to the civil police,” they stressed.
The Chief of Defense Staff in his response to his men said, “I appeal to you all to let us be firm on this issue to prove to the whole world that we're truly a professional military force.”
He asked the officers to take consolation from the assurances by the president who's the Commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces that; all perpetrators in connection with the death of Capt. Mahama will be held responsible.
The former army Captain who had been detailed to lead a military team in the fight against galamsey in the Central Region of Ghana, was lynched by a mob who mistook him for an armed robber in Denkyira Obuasi. His body was subsequently burnt by the mob.
The Ghana police have since reported the arrest of seven people as at Thursday June 1.
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