A young man who was captured dropping a heavy stone in the heart-wrenching viral video of the lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama has confessed in court.
Akwasi Baah was among a group of about 50 young people in a village in the Central Region who lynched a fast-rising personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces in 2017.
During a court proceeding to hear murder charges brought against suspects in the dastardly event at Denkyira-Obuasi on May 29, 2017, Akwasi claimed Major Mahama had been killed before he also attacked him with the stone.
According to a court report on the proceedings by Daily Guide on February 28, 2023, Akwasi claims he thought the military man in mufti and carrying a sidearm was an armed robber.
Akwasi Baah told the court that he had been a victim of a robbery incident the night before. He claimed in that robbery incident on May 28, he and other passengers were robbed while they were travelling into Denkyira-Obuasi.
Baah told the court that armed robbers blocked the road and attacked them before stealing from them, adding that one of the robbers was wearing a military boot and brandished a pistol.
He said because of his bitter experience the night before when he heard that an armed robber wearing a military boot and carrying a pistol had been caught, he was sure the late Major Mahama was among the robbers. The state prosecutor, Frances Mullen Ansah, got the court to play the horrific video just to establish that Akwasi Baah was the man who infamously dropped the heavy stone on the soldier's head.
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