The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Upper Denkyira West, Mr Daniel Appianin, has said that Captain Maxwell Mahama who was lynched on Monday at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region, was part of some military personnel who were protecting Chinese small-scale illegal miners (galamsey) in a distant forest at Aminase.<\/p>\n
In a radio interview on Accra based Citi FM Tuesday morning, Mr Appainin said contrary to assertions by the Ghana Armed Forces that Captain Mahama was part of a military detachment in the area to fight galamsey, he [Captain Mahama] was rather part of a group of military personnel who were protecting illegal miners.<\/p>\n
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According to him, after a highway robbery incident in the area last week, the townsfolk became vigilant about criminals and their operations, thus, their suspicion of Captain Mahama as an armed robber after spotting a pistol on him as he jogged through the town on Monday dawn.<\/p>\n
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\u201c\u2026 I had a call that they had arrested one of the armed robbers, armed and in the cause of exchanging gun shots with them, they\u2019ve killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI called my police commander, he told me they\u2019ve gone to the scene, they\u2019ve taken the body and that he will brief me afterwards.”<\/p>\n
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“\u2026 In the evening around 6pm, 7pm, then I had information that the supposed armed robber was not [an armed robber] but he was a military man \u2013 one of those military men who are protecting the small-scale miners in that forest I\u2019m talking about, very far distance from where the forest is and where the incident took place. The incident took place at Denkyem-Obuasi, a very far, long distance to Aminase where the forest is, where those military men are,\u201d Mr Appianin said.<\/p>\n
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The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Upper Denkyira West, Mr Daniel Appianin, has said that Captain Maxwell Mahama who was lynched on Monday at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region, was part of some military personnel who were protecting Chinese small-scale illegal miners (galamsey) in a distant forest at Aminase.
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