Mahama Killers Adviced to Get Lawyers

The Accra High Court has advised five persons implicated in the murder of Major Maxwell Mahama to secure lawyers.

They are Kofi Nyame aka Abortion, farmer, Joseph Appiah Kubi aka Kum Dede, driver, John Bosie aka Abodie, driver’s apprentice, Bismarck Abanga and Kwadwo Animah, mason.

The advice follows the inability of the five to secure lawyers to defend them in the trial.

Justice Ms. Mariama Owusu urged the accused persons to exhaust all available means to secure lawyers before the next adjourned date, March 21.

The court noted that the situation was holding it back in respect of the trial.

George Bernard Shaw, representation of six of the accused persons said the accused persons are frantically looking for lawyers.

He said he was assisting in that regard.

The 14 were part of some 22 suspects, including a woman earlier arrested and charged over the gruesome murder of the 5 Battalion of Infantry Soldier on May 29, 2017.

They were provisionally charged with conspiracy to murder and murder.

Then Capt. Maxwell Mahama of the 5 Battalion of Infantry was lynched while he was on his early morning jogging Monday, May 29, 2017.

The fallen officer, whom many have described as decent and gentle, died on Monday, May 29, after he was beaten, stoned and burnt by residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region.

Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama was posthumously promoted to the rank of Major on June 5, by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

At the last hearing, Ms. Evelyn Keelson, a Principal State Attorney told the Court the accused persons had been furnished with all the necessary documents for the case to start and urged the court to give the prosecution a two-week adjournment for the trial to start.

She said the court ought to give the accused persons a trial warrant because the accused persons currently only had a remand warrant, a request the trial judge granted.

According to the prosecution, the State had lined up 53 exhibits to firm its case against the accused persons.

These include pellets, empty cartridges, pictures from the crime scene, two guns partly burnt shirt, a cell phone belonging to the deceased, cement blocks, stick, metal bar, stones, 7 rounds of ammunition, 2 single barrel guns among others.

Other accused persons are William, Baah, the Assemblyman; aka Misty; Bernard Asamoah aka Daddy, drivers’ apprentice; Akwasi Baah aka Baya, farmer; Kwame Tuffour aka Asowonan, driver and Michel Anim aka Nana Anim.

The others are: Bismarck Donkor aka Dada, farmer; Akwasi Asante, farmer; Charles Quainin aka Kwesi Boah, vulcanizer; Emmanuel Baidoo.

By: Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson/ thePublisher