Eyes wobbled trying to dam in the threatening tears. The weather held no such restraint, pouring out rains in Accra.

The same rains on the same day an army captain, Maxwell Adam Mahama, was clubbed with cudgels and cement blocks until he died.

Late Wednesday morning in Accra at the Airport Hills Roundabout, a bronze-hued statue of a smart-looking captain, standing at ease, a pistol to his right – inside his trouser made of rocks.

Slightly postured in a way that suggests, he was ready to rip it out against a violent target. But this is a statue. In reality, he was none of this. How can he be when those around him were his fellow Ghanaians?

What he rather did was to beg his attackers to desist from lynching him and this sad plea is captured in the statue with his left hand held out, five fingers stuck out saying, quietly commandingly – stop.

They didn’t.

Soldiers flanked by the roadside to catch a view of the statue. His dear wife and family arrived at the unveiling ceremony which was attended by the Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul and Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery.

Government erected the statue at an undisclosed fee. Under the statue, the name of the President, Nana Akufo-Addo and under his name, a brief bio of the stunningly brief career of a high-flying soldier.

One of Mahama’s children hangs around the family. He held on to the legs of a relative who also patted him closer in a mutual sense of protection.

His widow, Barbara, laid a wreath as did government and prayers were said over the statue, over the family, over the government and against mob justice.