Mortuary man storms cemetery, seizes corpse over GHC40 ‘debt’
13th February 2017
A mortuary man with the Tema General Hospital on Saturday stormed the Tema Community 9 cemetery to seize a corpse being interred over family's failure to pay a GHC 40 balance.
According to some eyewitnesses, the incensed mortuary man arrived in the company of a colleague at the time the burial process was on ongoing. seized the coffin, open it, picked out the dressed corpse and started heading back to the mortuary in a protest.
His reason was that the family of the deceased failed to pay for the full amount and smuggled the corpse at his blind side while he was busily preparing other bodies for burial.
His conduct shocked mourners who had gathered at the graveside to pay their last respect to the deceased.
The dramatic scene was brought under control after family elders in the company of some friends managed to pay the livid mortuary man whose action has been described as unthinkable.