The Tumu Kuoro and Member of Council of State, Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton has disclosed that residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, should count themselves lucky times have changed.
He disclosed that if it was in the olden days, they would have tasted the wrath of Sissala warriors after gruesomely murdering their kinsman they claimed was an armed robber.
“The way he was killed, if we had our own power or we were in the olden days, we would have gone there to show them who we are. Let them know that the slain soldier (Major Maxwell Adam Mahama) is a son of men, but now that we are in a democracy. You cannot do that, you cannot apply instant justice as government is working on and arresting all involved, so let’s have hope in the security services” the Tumu kuoró advised on Tumu-based Radford Fm.
The chief asked all and sundry, particularly his kinsmen not to seek revenge over the killing but allow the laws of Ghana to deal with the perpetrators.
“I am sure some of the members of the community where the incident took place may be here in Tumu or some of our communities. Don’t harass or attempt to do anything in the form of revenge to them as such acts will not be accepted by the laws of the country and you will be made to face the law that alone”, he cautioned.
He called on all the Sissala paramountcy to come help him organise the final funeral rite in Tumu next Saturday but reiterated the need for all to be law abiding during the occasion to show to the world they are not violent as many perceive.
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