The uncle of Captain Maxwell Mahama, young military officer lynched by Denkyira-Obuasi residents on Monday said, the family wants justice to bring a closure to his gruesome killing.
Prof. Fred Mark Bagonluri says it is unfortunate a man who has sworn to defend his country had to die in such a manner.
“A man who decides to save his nation has to die in war, and not murdered by the very citizens that he swore an oath to protect and defend against both internal and external aggression.
“For him to die in this manner challenges my citizenship,” he said.
Prof. Bagonluri told Joy FM the family is struggling to deal with the loss of the Captain who was on his way to being promoted to a Major soon.
Captain Maxwell Mahama who is with the 5 Battalion Infantry was reportedly lynched while he went jogging at dawn on Monday. He was allegedly stoned and burnt by the youth of the area who mistook him for an armed robber.
Who Was Captain Adam Mahama?
News of the murder of a Ghanaian soldier, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama has shocked the entire country on Tuesday morning.
Adam Mahama was the victim of mob justice by a group of residents in a town in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region. He was lynched to death and his body burned by residents who claim he was mistaken for a suspected armed robber.
Reactions online have shifted from sorrow to outrage about the death of the soldier.
But who was Captain Adam Mahama?
Adam Mahama was from a family of servicemen. According to his uncle, the inventor Fred McBagonluri, he was the great grandson of H.W.M Bamford, who served as the Inspector General of Police (1924-1938) for 14 years during British colonial rule in Gold Coast.
“His great grandfather Lt. Colonel H. W. M. BAMFORD MBE/CBE served the British Colonial Army and was first IGP of Ghana. ADAM was born to serve. He comes.from a long line of warriors. HMW fought in Natal South Africa 1896. Commanded a battalion in WW I in France and was one of three survivors of a German chemical attack. Fought in WW II. So please find these killers. We have given you too much to deserve this.”
His father also served in the Ghana Armed Forces.
Coming from a family of servicemen, he entered into the army at a very early age, rising rapidly to the rank of captain. In an interview, McBagonluri said Adam was in his early thirties, proof of his gallantry in the army. There has even been talk that he was been considered for promotion in the army shortly.
Adam was also considering a life in public service to Ghana. In an interview, Dr McBagonluri, disclosed that his nephew had consulted him recently about gaining a second master’s degree in either Law or Public Policy. McBagonluri, who helped establish the Faculty of Engineering and serves as the dean of the faculty at Ashesi Univeristy, advised Adam Mahama to pursue Public Policy first.
According to his Facebook profile, he studied abroad at the University of Leicester where gained a Master’s degree in Security and Risk Management. He also attended the University of Ghana where he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History. Before that he had attended the St John’s School in Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region for his secondary education. He also attended Akosombo International School.
He was the only son of his parents and leaves behind a mother, father, Barbara, his wife and two young child children. Maxwell and Barbara got married in August 2012.
He was also a lover of the game of tennis. In January 2017, when Roger Federer won the Australian Open he posted this on Facebook. “Lessons to learn from both Rafa and Roger. I think they both represent a strong character. Their resilience is just amazing.
Witnessing him win a grand slam at age 35, Roger is a good motivation for the start of the year. He says ‘tennis is a tough game, there are no draws’, you win or you lose. What a great championship match #tennisforlife.”
Source: JFM Ghana
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OH GHANA OH GHANA. WHY ARE WE GHANAIANS SO RUDE AND HEARTLESS. WHY ARE WE TAKING THE LAWS OF THIS BELOVED COUNTRY GHANA INTO OUR OWN HANDS? NOW SEE THE RESULTS OF THIS LAWLESSNESS. MAKING SOME PEOPLE FATHERLESS, JOBLESS AND HARDSHIP LIVING. OH WHY OH WHY. MAY THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH USES THE BLESSING OF THIS HOLY MONTH (RAMADAN) GRANT YOU AL-JANNA. RIP BROTHER.
Prof. Fred Mark Bagonluri is in NOT RELATED to deceased captain (May his soul rest in peace). This a PATHETIC play to launch a career in politics. The attempt to crawl over the diseased captainโs corpse to obtain publicity is obscene at best. The so-called prof. whose past live includes wanton discharge of firearms while intoxicated in the US, has never served anybody but himself and should be called to the carpet for who he is. WHAT A DISGRACE!
Those who just stood by and did nothing ,are as guilty as the murders.those who took the videos I bet were amusing themselves. In the UK, all of them would have been arrested and punished accordingly.satan's agents!they are cursed till the fourth generation. Any man or woman who marrys from that area will be cursed by association! Evil and unGodly generation, sodom and Gomorrah
none of us should underestimate a Ghanaian. There is too much wickedness in Ghana. People prefer common money than heir fellow human beings.
I never knew you but can't hold my tears... Strength and grace to your family.... May your soul rest in peace... My love to the wife and mother... From sandrine tchicaya.
I can't stop crying. Everytime I see his picture tears begin to roll down my eyes...ooh Ghanaians we are really wicked.
Though I know God's Forgiveness for all souls is so amazing beyond human comprehension, I call for physical extinction of that village. That village must be a memorial zone properly named after the event and for all innocent victims. It must not be habited by any Ghanaian. It must be a forest reserve for research for the now and the future generations. The name of the place should be change to become SHIELDS OF HOPE AND TOLERANCE. Thank you and long live Ghana.
Do the soldiers need to get to know who murdered captain Adam? The videos that are trending on social media shows more than evidence that all the township.they should arest all of them.those western region people are very wicked .they also killed my only brother in a cool blood with a matchet on one Sunday morning without getting any justice for him but Ghana armed forces please get justice for the late captain. Adam may your soul rest in perfect peace.๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
ITS THE POLICEMAN IN GHANA .HE RELEASES EVERY ***barred word*** AND INSTEAD HARASSES LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.HOW CAN THE PEOPLE TRUST THE POLICE? THE LAWYERS AND JUDGES WHO TRADED JUSTICE FOR GOATS AND YAMS.THIS IS THE GENESIS OF MOB JUSTICE. MAY YOUR DEATH FIX CORRUPTION IN GHANA ONCE AND FOR ALL.
MY TRIBUTE TO THE LATE CAPTAIN MAXWELL MAHAMA: Justice at its highest pinnacle is needed: ยถ He woke up with much optimism and courage to behold a bright new day. He left with an information to his comrades that: 'I shall return shortly'. Little did he know that he shall never return. ยถ My hands are really shaking with sadness typing this piece, nonetheless I have no Parkinson's syndrome. All due to how sadly the late captain Mahama was brutally murdered for no fault of his. ยถ In this era of civilization, how on earth will a country accrued and known by her freedom and justice experience such gruesome and barbaric act of mob justice and instance punishment to an innocent soul.? ยถ Should he be a criminal even with all due apologies, this shouldn't be the first point of call of administering punishment. ยถ The culprits involved in this wicked act have infringed on the law maxim: 'nemo judex in causa sua'....(the right of fair hearing before any justice is administered) ยถ The rule of law should work in times like this. The security, GAF, and all able bodies who are directly or indirectly involved in maintaining peace, harmony and administering justice in this country should go all out and bring all the perpetrators to justice. ยถ If this has happened to an army officer, then the lives of most innocuous civilians are at risk. ยถ Overtime, prejudices should be eschewed, love should rule supreme and being our brothers keeper should be a hall mark of us all. ยถ Sobbing as I end this piece, my deepest and heartfelt condolences to the widow, children and entire family of the late captain Maxwell Mahama. Fare thee well soldier. May your gentle soul rest in perfect peace. Selah... Kofi Peprah Eric๐๐ญ