Irate Youth Exhume Colleague's Body

An irate youth caused a stir at Dormaa Ahenkro in the Brong Ahafo region when they invaded a local cemetery and exhumed the body of a dead colleague, which had just been buried. According to them, the deceased known as Apau, a local forex bureau operator died mysteriously and the oracles should be consulted to determine the cause of the death.

Chanting war songs amid drumming, the youth stormed the cemetery, exhumed the body, took it home and laid it in state. They began to file past it while waiting for a fetish priest to perform the rites. It took the relatives of the deceased and some elders of the town several hours to convince them to release the body which was re-buried at 6.30 pm.

Apau died on December 22, through a motor accident. He was reported to have left the town with another friend on a motor bike to another town. On their way, he told his friend to alight and find another means of transport since his weight was putting too much pressure of the bike. His friend alighted but Apau was later found lying in a supine position by the roadside with the bike lying a few metres from the body.