Unfortunately for a family in Ghana that wasn’t to be.
The farming community of Wassa Saaman in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region was thrown into a state of shock last Thursday when news broke out that the corpse of a thirty-year-old woman buried in the area had been exhumed and left at the cemetery.
Some of the residents believed that the dead body of Maame Ajoa, popularly called Maajoa, who was buried about three weeks ago, was exhumed purportedly by some people believed to be engaged in blood money, also called ‘sakawa’.
They asserted that the cloth which was used to cover her private part when she was being buried was also removed. The source said:
“SO WE ARE SUSPECTING THAT THE PURPORTED ‘SAKAWA’ BOYS MIGHT HAVE RAPED OR HAD SEX WITH THE CORPSE.”
According to the sources, the exhumed body has since been reburied after the chief and elders of the community had performed the necessary rites.
A family source indicated that the exhumed corpse was raped by those who exhumed because footprints were found around the body and that her legs wide opened. He suspected that the suspects had sexual intercourse with the lifeless body. A family member said:
“WHEN WE WERE BURYING MAAJOA, WE COVERED ALL HER BODY EXCEPT THE HEAD, SO IT’S STRANGE THAT THE CLOTH COVERING HER PRIVATE PART HAS BEEN REMOVED AND HER LEGS WIDE OPENED.”
The sickness is real. Even in death, nothing is sacrosanct!