A military officer with the 5th Infantry Battalion (5BN) at Burma Camp in Accra but on detachment duties at Denkyira Boase in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central region has been lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber.
Captain Maxwell Mahama who is commander of a military detachment in the area according to his subordinates, on Monday dawn was seen jogging along the main road and as he stopped by to ask some women for directions, they saw the pistol on him.
According to them, he was not dressed in military uniform and because of recent spate of armed robbery in the town after residents were attacked a day earlier, the women called the Assembly man who organized the youth of the town to lynch him.
Several pleas by the security officer to the effect that he was not a criminal yielded no result as the angry residents kept hitting him life threatening objects including cement blocks until he died.
News of his death was later conveyed to his subordinates who visited the scene to ascertain things for themselves.
The body has since been conveyed to a health facility in the area but for fear of being attacked by the soldiers who may avenge his death, the youth have started fleeing the town realizing that the deceased was not a criminal as they thought.
Police in the area have confirmed the incident to mynewsgh.com and disclosed that investigations have commenced to apprehend those behind the act.
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May your soul rest in perfect peace you don't deserve this kind of death
Till Thy Kingdom come Diaso will remain a ghost town
I tell you this is a plan thing looking at the evidence so far,according to the story the woman called the assembly man but did not say she has been attacked.....the mob were not gathered at at the scene but came from their various homes. What did the assembly man do to protect the victim even if he was an armed robber? Where was the woman? I know this captain will to to the assembly man that he is a soldier and what he was doing at that time and even suggest that they take him to the police station. Even when the security men came pleading he is a soldier they will not listen.....the assembly man should be arrested as early as possible and he will mention all the people involved.....l plead with the soldiers they should not do this the army norm of beating people anyhow......Please deal with the assembly man and his task force or whatever.
Some villages in our country understand things differently, about five years ago i was driving my private car to visit my old man at Enchi, i stopped few meters after a village to pick something from the boot of the car and realized about eight youth all holding cutlass with speed were heading towards me, immediately i closed the boot and drove away. when they got to where i stopped they also stopped there and searched around and went back as i slowed down and watched them through my driving mirror, imaging they met me there no explanation would have satisfied them.
This is a wake up call on the security agencies especially the police and also the judiciary. What happened is an indication that the public has lost trust in these state institutions and that they will carry out justice in their own way. several reports and facts available attest to the fact that, arm robbers and ***barred word*** are not prosecuted by the police because the police and the actors in the judiciary take bribe from them. The law enforcement agencies must work hard to build trust in the citizenry. I however condem this act by the people of Diaso and the perpertrators must be brought to book.
the assembly man is supposed to be arrested and sentence to life imprisoned with a very hard labour. the people saw him and it sounds well to them that they shouldn't take any action against him but to report him, why can't he reason like them and take him to police station.
The assemblyman needs to be sentence to life in prison... He can't put the laws into his hands and do what ever he likes. Assemblyman command to kill....ah even if the person is a criminal our constitution does not enhance you to kill. AM REALLY SAD HMM
So many people innocent people are killed or imprisoned unjustly but it doesn't come to the public notice most of the time. This particular case is in the public domain because the victim was a security officer. Lord have mercy on us.
For a month this town is going to remain a ghost town.
hmmm..am soo sad