I Hit Major Mahama With Stone – ‘Killer’ Confesses

Bernard Asamoah, one of the 14 people on trial for their roles in the gruesome murder of the late Major Maxwell Mahama as Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region, has admitted hitting the deceased with a stone.

The accused, who has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and another count of murder, opened his defence before an Accra High Court yesterday, telling the court that he arrived at the scene where the soldier had been lynched and hit the motionless body with a stone as part of his plans to identify the deceased.

He told the court that he was once robbed in the town of his commercial motorbike, popularly known as Okada, and that he had to stop the business and instead decided to learn to drive.

He claimed that on the day the soldier was lynched, his father instructed him to go to the crime scene and see if he could identify the alleged thief who had been apprehended and beaten as one of the thieves who had stolen his motorcycle.

“But when we arrived at the scene, there was a crowd there, and the body lay motionless on the ground,” he testified in court.

He claimed he couldn’t identify the alleged thief because his face and head were bleeding, and he was lying face-down, rendering his face unrecognizable.

“When I arrived at the scene and saw him motionless with an unrecognizable face, I picked up a stone and threw it at him,” he explained.

When his lawyer, George Bernard Shaw, asked why he would throw a stone at the alleged thief, Bernard Asamoah replied, “I was going to find out if he was one of those who snatched my motorbike.”

But when I arrived at the scene and saw him lying on the ground, I grabbed a stone and threw it at him.”

“We all moved to the roadside after I threw the stone at him.” “We were told that the cops were on their way to the scene and that anyone seen there would be arrested,” he added.

Major Mahama was lynched in Denkyira Obuasi in May 2017 while on detachment with some military officers.

He was the captain of a 31-man military team dispatched to the town to protect the properties of C&G Mining Company due to illegal mining activities in the area.

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