Ghanaians started the week with outrage, shock and gloomy following the lynching of a young military man, Captain Maxwell Mahama, a husband and a father at Denkyire-Obusia in the Central Region.
To some of us, though his dead is undeniably gruesome and the circulating videos capture the viciousness of some Ghanaians, it has made headlines and shaken the foundation of concern because he’s a “respectable young military man” said to be innocent—as mob justice for so many years has somewhat become part of the Ghanaian culture of justice.
In a previous article which highlights the prevalence of this barbarism in Ghana, I wrote;
“For many years, some of us have been fighting and writing against this notion of mob justice on the back of the logic that even if someone has committed a crime, it’s not in the place of a mob or any person to serve him or her with any punishment but the court.