Ghana’s Parliament has passed a bill which will see the State cater for the wife and children of the Major Maxwell Mahama.
This was to fulfil the promise made by President Nana Akufo-Addo's after Barbara’s husband was lynched by a mob in Denkyira-Obuasi now New Oboase.
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Speaking to Accra-bases Class FM. Nitiwul said the passage: “is not a special treatment.”
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“It is a signal to the people of Ghana that when you die in service, the state will not leave you. It is a new beginning but already there are adequate provisions in the Ghana Armed Forces in such situations.”
Major Mahama was the commander of a military detachment stationed at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region to check the activities of illegal miners, popularly known as galamseyers.
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Some residents of then Denkyira-Obuasi lynched him on suspicion that he was an armed robber.
The government promised a Trust Fund to help the family of the deceased with a seed fund of GHS500,000, with President Akufo-Addo also pledging some GHS50,000 from his personal coffers to the bereaved family.