Weija Cemetery

It's safe to bury ur deceased there. No break ins

ODEEFOUR GH MUSIC ARTIST

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The Ghanaian society do not have the habit of visiting the cemetery though there are occasions where people go to lay flowers on tombs of deceased love ones or relatives. This day being a Wednesday I decided to pay a visit to the Weija Cemetery. I went to the Kaneshie Market tro-tro station early in the morning at 08:00am but was told passengers would start coming to join the Weija bound tro-tro or vehicle from 02:00pm and that I was to go to the main road side. At the road side I had to join the Kasoa bound tro-tro and get down at Weija Junction. I alighted at the Weija Junction at 08:30am and went to a nearby taxi rank but decided to walk after consulting a seller. After walking for sometime I got to a walled cemetery with a discarded gate. The caretaker told me that I was at the Oblogo Cemetery and I had to take a taxi to get to the Weija cemetery which I did. I had at the back of my mind what a cemetery it would be as it is popular and not the normal burial days phenomenon. I managed to get the taxi driver into a conversation so when he told me that we had reached I asked him of the walls of the cemetery still sitting in the taxi and he told me there was no walls to the Weija cemetery. I got off the taxi and had a look at my wrist watch and it was almost 09:00am. There was a whole lot of trees on both left and right side of road extending inwards into the cemetery grounds with thick shrubs at the side near the gutter. Only one side of road has a gutter. I asked a passerby of a security post or caretaker and he told me he had no idea. Upon a careful look along the roadside I saw a path leading into the cemetery. With a few steps inside I found out the main cause is erosion. I saw tombs around a few kingly and elegant ones. At my eyes level I was seeing men far ahead, I raised my right hand and waved. I was not getting any response so I went ahead some few steps and waved my right hand again in the air and still there were not seeing me and I saw there was an activity ahead. I got very near and greeted. I saw they are grave diggers. Nine of them some sitting and others standing. There was one digging and had a pickaxe lying inside and collecting sand with a shovel. He stopped his activity immediately I got very near and put on a gaze at me sweating and used his right hand palm to wipe the sweat from his face. The intended dug grave has taken shape and was around four(4) feet deep. The inside sand looked thick and hardened. I was standing on sand. Their ages range from twenty-three(23) to fourt-five(45) years. They want money before giving me information I want to have. I had earlier on explained my presence to them. I promised to come another time. Coming back onto the road; I found some graves were underground through the help of an erosion at a point. There were epitaphs on standing metals and tombs. I did not see tombs in any layout. I boarded an Accra bound vehicle and at 10:20am I was at Kaneshie Market.

Decent burial place