Burials ‘In Between Graves’ at Osu Cemetery, Accra, Ghana

Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2014

With an average of 120 burials per month, the Osu Cemetery appears stretched beyond its capacity. Rumours that dead bodies are exhumed and burned behind the Cemetery were quashed by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), but it came to the fore that new graves are being dug in between old ones.

“We have never exhumed any body and burnt it, and we will never allow it,” said Dr Simpson Anim Boateng, the Director of Health at the Assembly.

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