The biggest opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should be blamed for the lynching of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama.
“The NDC is laying blame for this heinous and callous lynching of Captain Mahama at the doorstep of President Akufo-Addo,” the party said in a statement.
The party said it is regrettable to see that Ghana has known no peace since the NDC, led by former President John Dramani Mahama, handed over power to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“Under the direct supervision of President Akufo-Addo, the state has watched and sponsored its goon squads to unleash wanton mayhem on innocent Ghanaians. From the beating up of a serving police officer at the Flagstaff House to the beating up of a regional security co-ordinator, the disruption of a court process, the burning of toll booths, and the molestation of civil servants, the lawless culture of impunity has now reached the doorstep of the Ghana Armed Forces,” the statement signed by its General Secretary Johnson Aseidu Nketia said.
The party contends that it will sooner than later be compelled to engage in a legitimate social revolution to protest the inability of Nana Akufo-Addo to protect Ghanaians should this level of impunity persists.
The NDC said President Akufo-Addo can honourably step down, if he feels he’s at a lost in managing the affairs of the state, else they will “resist oppressors’ rule with all our will and might forevermore”
Meanwhile, the party has commiserated with the family of late Capt. Mahama, the widow, children, the Ghana Armed Forces, and the Chief of Defence Staff.
The army officer was lynched by residents of Denkyira Boase in the Central region.
The residents at the behest of their Assembly member on Monday assaulted Captain Maxwell Mahama on suspicion of being a robber.
He was a military officer with the 5th Infantry Batallion (5BN) at Burma Camp in Accra.
Captain Mahama who is the commander of the area military detachment, according to his subordinates, was seen jogging along the main road and as he stopped by to ask some women for directions – the women saw a pistol on him.
The women who were alarmed after spotting the pistol mistook him for an armed robber thereby alerting their assembly member who allegedly organised some men to lynch him after which they burnt the body.
The women’s action is said to have been influenced by recent robbery attacks in the area with a recent one being a day before.
The military officer who was not in uniform when the incident happened is said to have pleaded with the mob not to lynch him indicating he was an army officer and not a criminal, but his plea was not taken by the mob who hit him with several objects including cement blocks .