There was tension between the youth and chiefs of Mempeasem in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the Central Region on Sunday over the sale of cemetery land to a private investor.
According to the disgruntled youth, they went to the cemetery for burial only for them to discover that a bulldozer was busily clearing portions of the cemetery which had been leased to the Mempeasem community since 1992.
When asked who gave the cemetery land out, Nana Aseku-Brempong who is the Caretaker chief of Mempeasem-Konsontre was allegedly mentioned by workers of the investors.
They further alleged that the Benkumhene of Konsontre had sold 100 plots of the cemetery land to a Nigerian resident at Assin Kushea.
Rainbow Radio’s Oheneba Ambrose said the angry youth numbering about 50 then stormed the palace of Nana Aseku Brempong to warn him to stay away from the land.
They told him to stay away from the land, or they would deal with him.
“We will chase all the chiefs into the bush if they make any attempt to sell the cemetery land,” the youth leader, Abdulai Salifu, said.
Some of the youth warned the developers to stay off the cemetery land or they will pull down any project that would be constructed on the land.
Meanwhile, Nana Aseku Brempong speaking with the media, denied the allegations.
He, however, admitted that he only led the investor to the land under the directive of his superiors.
On his part, the Assemblymember for Mempeasem electoral area, Mr Abdul Rahman Ibrahim, has called for calm among the youth and the chiefs.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
