The Alliance for Women in Media Africa (AWMA) has described as “deeply painful” the gruesome murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama.
It has therefore called on the security services to immediately fishout the perpetrators of the dastardly act and to face the full rigour of the law.
Also, it called on women in all walks of life to in no uncertain term denounce the grisly way Captain Mahama was maimed.
Captain Mahama was brutally lynched and charred to death Monday after he was allegedly mistaken as an armed robber. He was with the 5 Infantry Battalion of the Ghana Armed Forces, Burma Camp, Accra but on detachment duties at Denkyira Obuasi where he was savagely killed.
Speaking Friday on Morning Starr, Shamima Muslim Alhassan convener for AWMA said the Alliance is prepared to support women in the fight against the increasing culture of lawlessness that is gripping the country.
She said: “Women groups in every community must take this upon themselves. They must lead the fight against mob violence in their communities and we at the Alliance for Women in Media are prepared to support every women group everywhere in Ghana with basic skills and capacity to be able to do this advocacy we need to start immediately.”
“There is a critical role women can play. The conversation must start from all of us Ghanaians. But we want women to lead the advocacy because we don’t want to lose that last maternal instinct,” she added.
Outraged by the news of the reprehensible killing of Captain Mahama by the marauding youth of Denkyira Obuasi, she said “There is nothing justice about mob justice so we shouldn’t even be defining it and giving it any semblance of justice.
“It is mob deranged violence. We must call it for what it is and we must rally women to lead this advocacy.”
Meanwhile, 14 people are being held over the incident while seven of them have been charged and remanded into Police custody.
