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Capt. Mahama identified himself as a soldier but mob ignored him - Eyewitness reveals

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  • JAY 6 years ago

    Taking a sad look at this Soldier's death,false alarm and mistaken identity is the major cause of mob justice in Ghana today,how do the people believe or know when you say you are a soldier when you not in uniform,because an ...
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  • PR! 6 years ago

    Listen to yourself. What is unfortunate. The man asked to be taken to the police station and he the assemblyman ignored him. So what is unfortunate about this planned and deliberate killing.

  • insight to the bone 6 years ago

    Really what a tragic comedy of a joke banana republic Ghana is.We have an arch criminal JJ running his mouth with cholera shit propaganda boasting of crimes any normal human being would be ashamed of.We talk of reconciliation ...
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  • Kasavubu 6 years ago

    He told them he was a Soldier but methink he dd not do to them what my mind of a Soldier would do.
    After they had shot at the moving bus, l would have sprayed a mini circle of bullets at five feet level. Surely, one bullet ...
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  • MIGHTY ZOLA. 6 years ago

    You are very foolish to comment at such

  • Bukandi 6 years ago

    I wonder the kind of people who make this sort of comments, is unfortunate anyway, but i believe who so ever partake in his killing would have his portion.You did not see him in any act, just seeing a pistol by his waist belt ...
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  • ABBA ATTA 6 years ago

    JAY FROM THIS REPORT, IT IS CERTAINLY A CASE OF FALSE ALARM, BUT NOT A MISTAKEN IDENTITY, IT IS AN INTENTION FILLED WITH EVIL, MALICE AND WICKEDNESS.

  • lizard 6 years ago

    Have u ever seen an armed robber moving alone with no accomplice in broad daylight with a gun strap at his side, and with no car or motor bike etc? Was the captain caught in the act of robbery? Was he seen entering or coming ...
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  • Ms. Twum 6 years ago

    You are not using your common sense just like those stupid township men. Does one needs a special scientific Gadgets to understand the words"I'm an Officer take me to the Police Station. They Choose to ignore his words. Non o ...
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  • Yaw 6 years ago

    That's why you don't take the law into your own hands like you own everybody

  • Israel for you 6 years ago

    And he said. Take me to police station. Even if he is a thief. Take him to police station. He said. Meaning there's no wise person in that village? If i may ask?

  • ALBERT 6 years ago

    THOSE WHO WILL BE FOUND GUILTY IN THE OFFICER'S DEATH SHOULD BE SENT TO JAIL FOR LIFE.THESE ARE ANIMALS WHO SHOULD NOT BE SHOWN ANY MERCY.

  • Prof Lungu 6 years ago

    Who killed Mills and why he/they killed mills?

  • DDT 6 years ago

    His death is regrettable but there is a truth untold. If a woman the officer asked for directions went to call the assembly man, went did the assembly man plan to kill the officer? Did the assembly man know the officer was co ...
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  • Jackie 6 years ago

    You only heard from their mouths that the woman reported that he had seen an armed robber. Do you believe it? She could have also said "Assemblyman, the man has just passed here and heading towards the village? It seems you d ...
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  • Ay 6 years ago

    DDT u are not wise at all .If they say some on plan something doesn't mean its at the moment it happened that the plan took place. He is the one every one was listening to so if he had directed that he should be taken to the ...
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  • Yao 6 years ago

    Jay or what ever u call urself. Did u read de news well? Did he only identified himself as an officer or he continued by saying he should be taking to de police station? Dnt edit de msg ok? It could happen to anybody.

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  • JOB Tema 6 years ago

    The killers of captain Mahama are not human beings they are cannibals we didn't know until now. We must thank the Almighty for revealing it to us now

  • Kangah 6 years ago

    This Doky guy was claiming he had his information from a sister living at the village. He is now an eye witness. Eiiii!

  • Lyching: The Whole Country On Trial. 6 years ago

    Doesn't the video show some people shouting out, saying, "Are you letting the armed robber escape?" That shows that most of the partakers in the crime were wrongly convinced that the major was an armed robber. Many people ha ...
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  • Jackie 6 years ago

    You've said a lot my friend but I can assure you that you were only one-sided. If you remember the genesis of the murder, it was told that the Assemblyman and 2 others (a motor-rider and a unit committee member) had gone to e ...
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  • Lyching: The Whole Country On Trial. 6 years ago

    Escort him into the village? What does that mean, Jackie? If the major was jogging for exercise and at any point he needed to be escorted by anyone, wouldn't it infer that he was heading into danger? Why would he go forwar ...
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  • Jackie 6 years ago

    They video-taped apparently to put it in the domain of the media to give the impression that they are the kings of the jungle and cannot be toyed with.

  • lizard 6 years ago

    The video could be a planned set up, how can u hear there is an armed robber and u run towards the scene with your video recording while u are far away from the scene? Unless u are investigative journalist or film maker, so t ...
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  • mr tee canada 6 years ago

    Jay please don't say anything anymore u are annoying u have no humanity in you just like de killer's so stupid this people can send this captain to the police station

  • Jay 6 years ago

    These barbaric people from typical village will do this to fellow military man. They need death not prison. It is very horrible to watch the video.

  • abongo hannover germany) 6 years ago

    Junior officers should defy any senior staff and make known to the General public that any attend to repeat this cruel act will become a military and civilian war in this country...Ghanaians are sometimes fools.If Captain Mah ...
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  • Mackenzie Mwaungulu 6 years ago

    I am also thinking in that line. It is unfortunate than am from South of the Equator and my country is thousands of kilometres away from GoldCoast. Had it been I was a Ghanaian or from any neighbour of Ghana, I would have pre ...
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  • Solomon Argentina 6 years ago

    What is the diffrent between this story and the one of KABA? The law have to work.how can you plan to kill are you animals???

  • Solomon Argentina 6 years ago

    Things like these will only happen in a town like Denkyira Obuasi a town wich about 87%cannot read and write.

  • Joe 6 years ago

    Hitler could read n write several languages including English, yet he killed over 4million Jews. How about that? Illiteracy had nothing to do with this barbaric murder. It is a typical case of the wickedness n injustice again ...
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  • K.Pomen 6 years ago

    I wonder the kind of people who make this sort of comments, are unfortunate, but I believe who so ever partake in his killing would have his portion on this earth.
    The man requested to be taken to the police station and he t ...
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  • Owuo 6 years ago

    If this officer can not defend himself from the group, then what was the value of the arm he was holding? This is beyoung my undersand. Caward , slow or what?

  • Sali.,Bongo 6 years ago

    Death penalty straight forward! I don't believe in this court system . The military who have been deployed there should torture them to death. Don't waste your time arresting and sending them to court . jailing them is a wast ...
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  • mike 6 years ago

    I think before the warrant officer who accompanied the the officer . As the detachment second in command .
    Upon hearing the officers dearth should have turned den Kyi rah upside down .
    Before the military high command and t ...
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  • SK 6 years ago

    They keep publishing fake stories to generate traffic. Where's that Duku man you claim he's giving you information. How credible is that person? Why don't you show his face? Why don't you send him to police? Fake news website

  • emma 6 years ago

    "YEN.com.gh earlier quoted one eyewitness, Kojo Duku, as saying that the assembly man, William Baah, and some "
    Your reportage in this country is the worst. Why declare the name of the said witness?you want him to be lynche ...
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  • Papa G. 6 years ago

    Most times blame the law enforcement agencies too. At times when you arrest a thief and send him to the police station with all evidence, within some few days most times you will see the criminal walking on the streets. Some ...
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  • Jeans 6 years ago

    l beg the president to for once sign the death warrant of these criminals if the court should condemn them to death.I suggest they are hanged in public at their town center to serve as a deterent

  • ALUTA CONTINUA 6 years ago

    TEMPER JUSTICE WITH MERCY

  • nana kwame , UK 6 years ago

    From what I heard from Kaba, the eye witness story is true.

  • VETERAN JOURNALIST 6 years ago

    IF NOTHING TOUCHS THE RAFIA IT DOES NOT MAKE ANY NOISE. AS I HAVE STATED ELSEWHERE I HOLD THE MILITARY HIGH COMMAND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE BUDDING CDS. WHY DID IT SEND THE ARMY TO GO AND GUARD A PRIVATE COMPANY - C ...
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  • Abeiku SW2 London 6 years ago

    Cos they are a bunch of arrogant buffoons thinking they were untouchable ... half of them should have been taken out when they were caught ...

  • Roger 6 years ago

    Well I think what's important now is the prosecution of the offenders. If found guilty and convicted to death which I presume should be the case, they should be lined up at the Teshie Range and allow the soldiers to execute t ...
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  • T and T 6 years ago

    Do not jump into conclusion that the assembly man was the brain behind this MOB ACTION. Remember the mob action against Jesus, the king knew he was not guilty but could not stop the mob.
    The important thing is that, this fin ...
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  • Jawam Gordon 6 years ago

    That confused confessor who claimed Captain attended the invitation of grifted galamseyer meeting and was killed , but it is same basters who claimed they mistook captain to be arm robber. This basters need to be fed to dogs, ...
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  • OWEN. NEW YORK 6 years ago

    THE TAX PAYERS MONEY MUST NOT BE WASTED ON THESE KILLERS BY FEEDING THEM IN PRISON. LINEUP THE KILLERS AT ACCRA SPORTS STADIUM AND SHOOT THEM.THIS WILL SERVE AS A DETERRENT TO PEOPLE WHO LYNCH OTHERS.

  • Sivien 6 years ago

    Even if the man was a suspected armed robber, what had he stolen or attempted stealing? These are legitimate questions that even a child will ask first.

  • wisdom, Akatsi 6 years ago

    I reject some comments over this death.Is the late captain stealing or robbing people before he was mistaken and killing people before they disgraced him and killed him.So I think those commenting on him not be in uniform is ...
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  • Zico zico 6 years ago

    The Assembly knew the constitution in Ghana that no one has right to kill we matter how .as for the last person with block and the woman with fire should go life in prison. And leave the rest

  • Asamoah 6 years ago

    they have tied security personnel's hand behind their back with threats of dismissal and other human right ramifications

  • Tanko 6 years ago

    All those found guilty by a judge should seat in jail without parole until confessions..... Haba! To take a life you didn't create is that easy???? We seriously need God in our mists! I believed in forgiveness but we must lea ...
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  • Peace guy 6 years ago

    You people just get free internet and and freedom of speech posting anything from your mouth and ur mind like this please remember that if the day is not over yet you don't know where you are going so please be careful about ...
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