Mourners at a funeral at Number Two, a suburb of Sunyani, last weekend were stunned into silence and disbelief when they realised that the body that had been lying in state for about three hours at the family house amidst wailing and singing of funeral dirges was the wrong body. When they realised that the body was not that of Opanin Kofi Yeboah, alias Koo munufie, all the wailing stopped.
The Mirror says for the vigilance of relative, who identified the body lying in state as not that of heir relative Opanin Yeboah, the bereaved family at Number Two would have gone ahead to bury the wrong corpse.
The family had mistakenly exchanged the body of the centenarian relative, for another body at the mortuary and had beautifully laid it in state preparing for the burial when the unexpected happened.
A vigilant grandson of Opanin Yeboah, Solomon Kofi Boadun, after a close examination of the body drew the attention of the other family members to the fact that the body that had been laid in state was that of another person.
Initially, the family members did not believe they were mourning the wrong person until they saw that the body lying in state had one of the fingers cut off.
