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Enact ‘Major Mahama law’ to end lynching – NPP communicator

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  • KOGYAM58 6 years ago

    I AGREE WITH YOU 100%

  • KOFI AYIGBE 6 years ago

    ME K'OFI AYIGBE, IF WHAT I SAY DOES'NT AS SURE BANKER THEN CALL ME USELESS. I SAID PARLIAMENT SHOULD CALL IT MAXWELL'S LAW.

  • KOFI AYIGBE 6 years ago

    100% SURE BANKER

  • Mamachi! 6 years ago

    I support it 1000%. Bring the law into force without delay and also establish a fast track judicial system to trial thieves (armed robbers) separate from petty thieves stealing fowls and foodstuff without violence or threat t ...
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  • Africanus 6 years ago

    What we need is to ban all forms of vigilante and paramilitary groups belonging to political parties. Those who want to rule must learn to be law abiding first.

    Secondly, our police services need a major overhaul, the men ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 6 years ago

    Maxwell Mahama law to institute a protocol for the Army to follow in the event of emergencies for instance

  • Rootsman 6 years ago

    Enforcement is the problem
    If you lynch someone
    The charge is MURDER

  • Create,loot and share 6 years ago

    As long as police and judges take bribe to free criminals,we will continue to lynch them.How many politicians,chiefs and other high profile Ghanaians who have committed crime been prosecuted? .Lynching is the only solution.

  • GIDIGBA 6 years ago

    The problem with our society is not the absence of laws, but the absence of an enabling environment for laws to be enforced and for us to obey the law. Until that is sorted out, we can enact all the laws in the world in our n ...
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  • Sailfish 6 years ago

    contonue to take the law into your hand and lynch people as u said. Eventually will be lynched too, then when u will beg for the enactment of such law, fool.

  • Kareem Starboy 6 years ago

    Name the new law National anti lynching law. The name Mahama is synonymous with thievery and has thus lost it's relevance

  • Agonaba 6 years ago

    Madam Yenboka Kenna, a widow, was lynched at the Pelungu market on Monday, May 29, 2017 for beind a "witch".
    A 55-year-old man has been lynched at a drinking spot for allegedly stealing GH¢1, 50 pesewas.
    This unfortunate ...
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  • Flair 6 years ago

    There are very stiff penalties to deal with even "plantain snatchers", so what is this silly bloke talking about?

    With a toothless AG dept., it not the laws but INCOMPETENT prosecutors who can't handle cases, onu lo!

  • apuuuu 6 years ago

    There's to much freedom in Ghana and is going to be hard for such law to work is good idiea our sytem and our culture will make difficult for it to work all police station should have phone numbers to ...
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  • Tet.. 6 years ago

    Ghana is truly in a sorry state if we require a law to stop lynching.

  • Komla 6 years ago

    I agree with the proposal 100%. This must never happen again to anyone for that matter.We are more civilized than this.

  • KOFI 6 years ago

    Where has this man been all this while, total hypocrisy. God is watching. Every live matters Mr. Communicator

  • Patriot 6 years ago

    Just activate the death penalty for lynching offences and all such nonsense will stop.We do not need any new 'Major Mahama Law' to be enacted to make make lynching a criminal offence.

  • Easamoah 6 years ago

    I agree 100% bam

  • James Naru 6 years ago

    Excellent suggestion. You are a member of parliament. Go ahead and do it

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  • koffi parker 6 years ago

    motherfuckers call Politicians and so call leaders

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  • BAFFOE USA 6 years ago

    I AGREE WITH MP GYENFI FOR THE PASSING OF MAJOR MAMA LAW TO BAN THE MASSES TAKING THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS. THIS WILL PUT A STOP OF TAKING THE LAW INTO THEIR HANDS TO KILL INNOCENT CITIZENS. TANK YOU VERY MUCH. ...
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  • Lazmat 6 years ago

    The government should also form anti-lynching task force that will solely go after the mother fuckers who go around lynching people.

  • Adesa 6 years ago

    Major Mahama law must be enacted to end stories of lynching in our country. This is not acceptable any longer. Even people stealing 1.50 cedis are being lynch when a spot owner wants them killed and got out of their way. This ...
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  • Ghana nii 6 years ago

    On point, tougher laws must be in place for lynching and other stuff which people kill people for nothing, police station were built first such an acts. So when Gh people suspect a person they should take that person to the p ...
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  • Paul 6 years ago

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  • Koo 6 years ago

    Where were you when people were lynching others? Is that the first ever lynching known to you or is it because he comes from a well connected family that is why there should be a Mahama law? You hypocrites, learn to appreciat ...
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  • John Ghanaba 6 years ago

    Except where terrorists are caught in the act wreaking havoc, or armed robbery thugs are caught red handed.in such circumstances lynching could be useful to save more innocent lives.

  • Musa 6 years ago

    The security agencies,chiefly the police have encouraged such 'culture'(mob lynching) among the citizens. Their preparedness,honesty and commitment sometimes leaves much to be desired. On formal basis,you catch a thief or rob ...
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  • dunaa 6 years ago

    There are already laws against murder on the books in Ghana. Indeed there are laws against assault and battery as well as stealing. Does anybody enforce the laws? Even the Police Service doesn't perform it's duties, neither d ...
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  • Dr Robert K Glah 6 years ago

    Major Mahama Lynching Prohibition Act 2017 should be passed by Parliament as a matter of urgency to discourage mob injustice, vigilante movements and to punish the crime with prescribed deterrent punishments.

    The Act will ...
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