Accra’s Cemetery for the rich

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ELINAM 10 years ago

We're so filthy that we kept our cemeteries so unkept after spending millions on funeral. And due to this, a clean cemetery is termed modern?
The family cemetery in my town is free and clean.

We're so filthy that we kept our cemeteries so unkept after spending millions on funeral. And due to this, a clean cemetery is termed modern?
The family cemetery in my town is free and clean.
Angie 10 years ago

Wow, it makes no difference to the dead where their resting place would be. I bet that rich people cemetery is surrounded by open nasty gutters. Use your money to cover all the stinky gutters & beautify the city instead of wa ...
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Wow, it makes no difference to the dead where their resting place would be. I bet that rich people cemetery is surrounded by open nasty gutters. Use your money to cover all the stinky gutters & beautify the city instead of wasting it on cadavers.
Poka 10 years ago

What's with the obsession with the dead in ghana? They'll rather have a lavish funeral than helping someone in need.

What's with the obsession with the dead in ghana? They'll rather have a lavish funeral than helping someone in need.
Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 10 years ago

This is senseless....when I die and I'm in ghana. Bury me.In the countryside

This is senseless....when I die and I'm in ghana. Bury me.In the countryside
naana 10 years ago

I am with you on this one Poka. Lets all take care of the living and stop that lavish funeral. First of all they will keep you in that "frigde for more than 3 months, after that if you are a woman you were wedding gown and ti ...
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I am with you on this one Poka. Lets all take care of the living and stop that lavish funeral. First of all they will keep you in that "frigde for more than 3 months, after that if you are a woman you were wedding gown and tiara, spend so much on food etc.
Meanwhile when the person was alive they would not find someone to even fetch water for them to drink
Please lets stop all these nonsense and invest in education!
james brown 10 years ago

In Ghana it shows all animals are not equal. That is the state we are in now.The society are trying to separate the sheep from the goats.

In Ghana it shows all animals are not equal. That is the state we are in now.The society are trying to separate the sheep from the goats.
Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

What is all the fuss about this cemetery? Is it your money they used to bury their dead? If the government would do the right thing and be faithful with Ghana,s money, there would be no need for anyone to have to spend so muc ...
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What is all the fuss about this cemetery? Is it your money they used to bury their dead? If the government would do the right thing and be faithful with Ghana,s money, there would be no need for anyone to have to spend so much money for a decent grave in Accra.
Bafour 10 years ago

We keep crying for advancement but anytime someone thinks or does something out off the box in line with progress, these tabloid press would sensationalise it. How many people are employed at the whole Awudome cemetery as car ...
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We keep crying for advancement but anytime someone thinks or does something out off the box in line with progress, these tabloid press would sensationalise it. How many people are employed at the whole Awudome cemetery as care takers and making a living as compared to this set up?

If part of society decides to neglect maintenance culture and adopted ruins why criticise those who want to preserve or go back the traditional decent and quiet final resting place ideals?

Leave the dead alone!!!!!!!
OKONFROBUO 10 years ago

What is the sense of making profit out of the dead. Is like praying all the time ? for people to die in other to make money. Blood money.

What is the sense of making profit out of the dead. Is like praying all the time ? for people to die in other to make money. Blood money.
Quincy 10 years ago

Waste time and land

Waste time and land

Michael K. Tettevi 10 years ago

Expensive death for expensive cemetery. You have to die as a rich man if you want to be buried in Gethsemane. How large is the memorial garden ?

Expensive death for expensive cemetery. You have to die as a rich man if you want to be buried in Gethsemane. How large is the memorial garden ?
Becca 10 years ago

POKA, thank so much Ghana is copying from other countries which is very wrong they should understand Things before copying.Useing Money by Heart in the country (Ghana we ar very POOR country) and we never thing to face the t ...
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POKA, thank so much Ghana is copying from other countries which is very wrong they should understand Things before copying.Useing Money by Heart in the country (Ghana we ar very POOR country) and we never thing to face the truth and facts. upon all nature(BLESSINGS) is provideing us.Those countries they are copeing USES THE MONEY WISELY to develop the NEEDS of the country.
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

Two women friends had gone for a "girls night out." They both were very faithful, loving wives... however, they had gotten a bit over enthusiastic on Margaritas at the Western Hotel.

Incredibly drunk and walking home, they ...
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Two women friends had gone for a "girls night out." They both were very faithful, loving wives... however, they had gotten a bit over enthusiastic on Margaritas at the Western Hotel.

Incredibly drunk and walking home, they needed to pee, so they stopped in a cemetery. One had nothing to wipe with so she decided to take off her panties and use them. Her friend, however, was wearing expensive panties and didn't want to ruin them... luckily she had squatted next to a grave that had a fresh wreath with a ribbon on it... so she proceeded to wipe with that.

After the girls completed their "business" they continued toward home.

The following day, one of the husbands was concerned that his normally sweet and innocent wife was still in bed and hung over. He phoned the other husband, and said "These girls nights out have got to stop! I'm starting to suspect the worst! My wife came home with no panties!"

"That's nothing!" said the other husband, "mine came back with a card stuck to her butt that read:

"FROM ALL OF US AT THE FIRE STATION... WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU!!!"
Ajit Babu 10 years ago

I love this one!

I love this one!
kokotii 10 years ago

You made my day, this is funny

You made my day, this is funny
ELINAM 10 years ago

That went down well like a fine wine!!

That went down well like a fine wine!!
Kofi USA 10 years ago

Princewilly, I like ur story of the two wives. Anyway, expensive cemeteries do not make sense when some people are hungry. Pls Use ur riches to help the poor and the Lord will reward u mightly.

Princewilly, I like ur story of the two wives. Anyway, expensive cemeteries do not make sense when some people are hungry. Pls Use ur riches to help the poor and the Lord will reward u mightly.
Hahaha 10 years ago

Humorous Princewilly, great one!!

Humorous Princewilly, great one!!
Viv 10 years ago

I am not averse to this. My mum is buried in Osu which is over crowded. Whenever we go there we have to climb over other people's graves to get there. Call me rich but I would use this "rich" cemetery

I am not averse to this. My mum is buried in Osu which is over crowded. Whenever we go there we have to climb over other people's graves to get there. Call me rich but I would use this "rich" cemetery
OKONFROBUO 10 years ago

U can even call yourself he'll, I care less.

U can even call yourself he'll, I care less.

United Ghana 10 years ago

When I die, people can do whatever with my body even medical research. I will just leave instructions to my loved ones not to waste good money on my burial site. Absolute stupidity.

When I die, people can do whatever with my body even medical research. I will just leave instructions to my loved ones not to waste good money on my burial site. Absolute stupidity.
LEZO. EU. 10 years ago

I thought this paper would say as a result, the dead rise up after their family members have paid such amounts. It is nothing new. If only Bature has been to the Arlington cemetry in the United States, which is more or less a ...
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I thought this paper would say as a result, the dead rise up after their family members have paid such amounts. It is nothing new. If only Bature has been to the Arlington cemetry in the United States, which is more or less a favorite tourist site that generates millions of dollars, or the military cemetry near Haifa in Israel, he wouldn't have been alarmed by this developments. It is rather unfortunate that we did not keep our burial places neat. This is no news Bature.There are better things out there to write about.
Kwame 10 years ago

Travel and see my brother! It would open your mind and help your career!

Travel and see my brother! It would open your mind and help your career!
HAFTAG. ( DE ONE) 10 years ago

I will rather advice them to change their monies into HEAVEN'S CURRENCY to. rather enable dem enjoy in heaven.

I will rather advice them to change their monies into HEAVEN'S CURRENCY to. rather enable dem enjoy in heaven.
HANS 10 years ago

THERE IS NO HEAVEN. PEOPLE DIED BEFORE THE IDEA OF HEAVEN WAS MOOTED- WHERE DID THEY GO.

THERE IS NO HEAVEN. PEOPLE DIED BEFORE THE IDEA OF HEAVEN WAS MOOTED- WHERE DID THEY GO.
ELINAM 10 years ago

Indeed you're right. That idea similar to the earth being flat was entered into the christiandom by the catholic church after the conference of Nacia where the Black spiritual concepts of old Egypt was plagiarized and white w ...
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Indeed you're right. That idea similar to the earth being flat was entered into the christiandom by the catholic church after the conference of Nacia where the Black spiritual concepts of old Egypt was plagiarized and white washed as a political tool for white control over the darker race after waking up from their backwardness to realize that every corner of this earth is covered with black people who never had such fears and travelled freely to own the earth.
Many islands these bandits who later on had enough courage to venture out with boats were so beautiful with naturally looking indigenes made these backward Europeans thinking that was the heaven promised in their catholic teaching and as they wanted it for themselves, they started killing off the indigenes for their land.
As they took their land, they transferred their backwardness to the darker race thru forced indoctrination of lies of looking up to a pie in the sky.
Source: HISTORY CHANEL, US.
kwasisei 10 years ago

Yes ooo! - only small ignorant minds believe in heaven. Only opportunists think there's life after death, they think they can cheat nature without evidence.

Yes ooo! - only small ignorant minds believe in heaven. Only opportunists think there's life after death, they think they can cheat nature without evidence.
bich 10 years ago

Bature should stop writing cheap articles, I'm here in Ohio , America, and every cemetery is like that.

Bature should stop writing cheap articles, I'm here in Ohio , America, and every cemetery is like that.
JOSHUA. 10 years ago

some one needs just one third of the amount used to purchase this so called rich cemetery to change his story or as a capital to start life and you spend on useless dead body. Is it not nonsense?

some one needs just one third of the amount used to purchase this so called rich cemetery to change his story or as a capital to start life and you spend on useless dead body. Is it not nonsense?
papillon 10 years ago

That's why Ghana is standing still

That's why Ghana is standing still

Okyesco 10 years ago

This is madness in the highest order, because they stole the money from the people, look at how they are spending it, Foolish People.

This is madness in the highest order, because they stole the money from the people, look at how they are spending it, Foolish People.
truth 10 years ago

DIRTY ENVIRONMENT AND EFE NTI FOLKS CANNOT MANAGE THOSE EXISTING ONES AND SOME SICK JOURNALISTS DECIDES TO PUT ON THIS ON WEB.

DIRTY ENVIRONMENT AND EFE NTI FOLKS CANNOT MANAGE THOSE EXISTING ONES AND SOME SICK JOURNALISTS DECIDES TO PUT ON THIS ON WEB.
Joe Turkey 10 years ago

I watched PV Obeng loot Ghana money as if there is no death. When he fell, he could not even get an ambulance to get him to the hospital. A taxi driver tucked him in his booth like a sack of gari loaded for Agbogbloshie marke ...
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I watched PV Obeng loot Ghana money as if there is no death. When he fell, he could not even get an ambulance to get him to the hospital. A taxi driver tucked him in his booth like a sack of gari loaded for Agbogbloshie market. How could I be bothered if the family buries him in a golden casket and a billion dollar grave. I would only be jealous if he would come back to enjoy his loot.
NPP 10 years ago

Since this is not the gateway to heaven, no problem about that. Remember the story of Lazarus and the Rich in
Luke 16

Since this is not the gateway to heaven, no problem about that. Remember the story of Lazarus and the Rich in
Luke 16
Mensah 10 years ago

every cemetery in Ghana should be like this

every cemetery in Ghana should be like this

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