Major Mahama trial

Almost seven years after the murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, a seven-member jury on Monday returned a unanimous verdict of guilty against a former Assembly Member and 11 others at the High Court in Accra, bringing justice to his close relatives. The former Assembly Member at Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region, William Baah, was found guilty on the charge of abetment of murder, while Bernard Asamoah, Kofi Nyame, Akwasi Baah, Kwame Tuffuor, Joseph Appiah Kubi, Michael Anim, Akwesi Asante, Charles Quaining, Emmanuel Baidoo, John Boasie and Kwadwo Animah were found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. The jury…

There was drama at the Accra High Court on Tuesday November 21 when the uncle of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, accosted­ defence lawyer in the ongoing trial. George Bamford, 70, was fu­rious because George Bernard Shaw, counsel for William Baah, one of the 14 accused, asked the seven-member jury to free his client. It took the intervention of court warrant officers to avoid physical altercation between Mr­Bamford and the lawyer. When tempers calmed down, the lawyer told Justice Mariam­a Owusu, a Supreme Court judge, sitting with additional responsibility as High Court judge, that he was scared. The judge therefore, instruct­ed her…

Charles Kwaning, one of the alleged murderers of Major Maxwell Mahama has denied his active involvement in the lynching of the Army Officer. The State identified the accused person in the amateur video wearing a red T-shirt and a long-short holding at one point a gun and on the other hand a stick, but he denied his own identity. Kwaning was answering questions in a cross-examination by Frances Mullen-Ansah, Chief State Attorney. The prosecution insisted that the person in the video with the red T-shirt and a pair of long shorts was the accused. When a photo album was handed…