A group in the Greater Accra Region, known as the Indigenous Youth of Kpone have threatened to embark on a demonstration if \u00a0authorities fail to end the haphazard sale of the Kpone Cemetery land.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”CuviajGjQtHoSDxlWoNf44lvTrEZlDif”]They have also warned those involved in the act to put an immediate stop to it or face their wrath.<\/p>\n
A member of the group who spoke on condition of anonymity said : “this is our cemetery land but it has been encroached by a factory and some new developers who do not have any permit but no one is ready to pull the structure down.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stated that they are planning a demonstration and are in the process of writing a letter to the Assembly and the Police informing them of their plans to demolish the structure.<\/p>\n
Another said: \u201cthis is the only thing we have and I am sure they are planning to sell this one as well and we will resist it with our blood, we will not allow it to happen.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our last resting place and we will make sure we protect it,” he added.<\/p>\n
Residents in Sekondi-Takoradi furious over closure of Cemetery<\/strong><\/p>\n The development follows similar reports about the closure of the Sekondi-Takoradi Cemetery in the Western Region which suggested that the space allocated for burial had been exhausted.<\/p>\n Residents who were notified of the closure on August 7th<\/sup>, 2017, were furious about the decision to close down the cemetery.<\/p>\n Some residents however blamed the closure on encroachment on the cemetery land.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By; Rita Mensah\/citifmonline,com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A group in the Greater Accra Region, known as the Indigenous Youth of Kpone have threatened to embark on a demonstration if \u00a0authorities fail to end the haphazard sale of the Kpone Cemetery land. [contextly_sidebar id=”CuviajGjQtHoSDxlWoNf44lvTrEZlDif”]They have also warned those involved in the act to put an immediate stop to it or face their wrath. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[10102,3,8548],"class_list":["post-344063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-cemetery","tag-ghana-news","tag-kpone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}