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Major Mahama Trial: Delay In Justice Delivery Worrying
Ransford Gyampo, an associate professor in the political science department of the University of Ghana has expressed worry over delay in delivering justice in connection with the murder of the late Major Maxwell Mahama.
Major Mahama of the 5 Battalion of Infantry was lynched while he went jogging in the early hours of Monday 29 May 2017.
The mob made up of residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region who stoned and burnt him later claimed that they mistook him for an armed robber because he carried a weapon.
State prosecutors on Monday (16 May) closed their case against 14 accused persons who have been charged with the offence of murdering the young soldier in 2017.
Reacting to the development, Gyampo questioned the rationale behind fast tracking delivery of justice in some legal cases in the country.
“The wheels of justice turn instantly when Oliver Barker-Vormawor drives recklessly. But when people, captured on video to be using stones to hit the head of a soldier and killing him like beela (rat) are taken to court, the same wheels of justice takes more than five years to keep turning,” Gyampo posted on Facebook.
“What do we think we are doing to morale among soldiers dispatched for national assignments? Are we not inciting soldiers against civilians? Are we not putting them aggressively on the defensive whenever they encounter civilians?”
Gyampo added: “If we cannot all advocate for a finality to be brought to the trial of the murderers of Major Maxwell Mahama, without further delay, then the warning of potential terrorist attack on us, to my mind, is merely hypocritical and diversionary.”
