Chief of Mempeasem in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Nana Boafo Fosu III, has emphatically stated to be no more space at the Asokyeano cemetery to accommodate new corpses.

The Asokyeano cemetery as described, has for decades stand as the major public cemetery for the entire Central Region and Cape Coast Metropolis to lay the dead to eternal rest.

Nana Boafo Fosu III whose community shares boundary with the Asokyeano cemetery, has expressed dismay on how the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly has for years overused the cemetery.

"Per my checks from those living around the cemetery, it is full to capacity and has thus propelled workers of the cemetery to encroach on my community's cemetery which shouldn't be. We have served the Metro Assembly numerous letters on that but seems the Assembly is playing adamant to act accordingly," the Chief fumed.

Speaking to Sompa TV's Eric Annan, he hinted to the rumour that because the cemetery is full to the brim, its workers often dig out old graves to replace them with new corpse. A practice he observed that traditional authorities in Mempeasem and its environ find suspicious since it hasn't been established where the skeletal muscles of these old graves are sent to, amid the health threat it poses to Mempeasem and other communities around the cemetery.

He has therefore urged those who have scheduled to hold burial ceremonies over the weekend, in and around Cape Coast, never to contemplate sending their corpse to the Asokyeano cemetery, having ordered youths of Mempeasem to deprive the burial of new corpse from this Saturday henceforth at the cemetery.

The Chief again echoed neglect of government policies on communities like Mempeasem, Asenadzi, Kurowfofordo, Tayido, Brimsu and others.

Sompaonline.com//Eric Annan