Kwame Tufour Confesses To Hitting Major Maxwell Adam Mahama With Cement Block
Kwame Tufour, 36, a farmer based in Denkyira-Boase in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, has confessed to hitting the head of the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama with cement block which resulted in his tragic death. The police apprehended the suspect last week after he had been on the run. He has admitted to the offence saying:
“I was around carrying wood when I heard people shouting thief, thief so I rushed there picked a cement block and hit him.”
According to police investigators, about 51 suspects have so far been arrested in connection with the lynching of the dead soldier with the latest being 7 who were on Friday remanded by an Accra Central District Court. They include; Akwasi Baah, Solomon Sackey, Kwame Agyei, Joseph Appiah Kubi (aka Kum Dede), Akosua Takyiwaa (aka Maabono), Esther Dauda (aka Asha) and Michael Kumah (aka Kojo Anim) to reappear on June 21, 2017. The suspects are expected to appear on June 21, 2017.
It’s gathered that all suspects have been provisionally charged with two counts of murder contrary to section 46 of the criminal code and other offences act of 1960, Act 29 as well as conspiracy to commit crime to wit murder: contrary to section 23(1) and 46 of the criminal and other offences act 1960 (Act 29).
The late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was on Friday June 9, 2017, given a state burial at the military cemetery in Osu.
