Denkyira-Obuasi: Police arrest five over the murder of Captain Mahama

The officer was on operational duties at the Alaska C&G Mining Company at Amenase Forest, near Diaso in the Central Region

Five persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of a military officer at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region.

The Central Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Irene Oppong, speaking to Accra-based Onua FM said the suspects are being sent to Police Regional headquarters in Cape Coast for further interrogation.

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ASP Oppong said "Security situation is under control after a meeting with the District Security Council (DISEC), the police and the military this morning."

"We have screened them all and five of them are suspects so we have handed them over to Cape Coast Police while the rest have been freed".

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Background

Captain Maxwell Mahama of the 5 Battalion of Infantry at Burma Camp in Accra who was on detachment duties at Diaso in the Central Region was lynched to death by the youth of the town.

 

The officer was on operational duties at the Alaska C&G Mining Company at Amenase Forest, near Diaso in the Central Region.

He was said to be jogging when some residents accused him of being part of a robbery gang that stormed Denkyira-Obuasi the previous day.

Other reports say the assemblyman of the area organised some youth in the town to beat him to death.

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The Ghana Armed Forces has since confirmed the incident and said investigations are ongoing.

However, about 50 men have been rounded up in the Upper West Denkyira district.

Scores of armed military personnel have been deployed to Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region as they mount a search for residents said to have lynched the Captain in charge of the area.

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