The founder of the Alabaster International Ministry, Prophet Kofi Oduro, has condemned the current trend of manhandling corpses at funerals in Ghana.
Aside from the growing trend of building personalised coffins, social media has witnessed moments where corpses are being laid in bizarre positions during wake-keeping.
In some instances, the bodies are placed in caskets that elaborate on their profession in life.
A recent viral video captured a group of people carrying a dead body on their shoulders and parading with it on the streets.
This act, according to Prophet Oduro, is the height of what he has described as stupidity displayed during funerals in Ghana.
Tackling the issue during one of his recent sermons, he fumed, “Foolishness has entered Ghana. Now, when someone dies, we don’t even have respect for the dead. We can lay the body in the kitchen and give an excuse that she was a cook or chop bar operator. Nonsense! Are there no elders in the family? This shows that not every elder is wise.
“In another instance, they take the dead body out of the coffin, carry it on their shoulders, and match with it on the street. They sometimes throw a casket containing a dead body into the grave, and the casket ends up breaking into pieces. Then what’s the essence of putting the person in a coffin in the first place?”
He added that such practices cannot be seen in the most advanced countries.
“You go to an advanced country; a person dies sometimes, and they don’t even show the body. Some of these countries do not pray in tongues, but you people are praying in tongues with foolishness as a nation,” he stated.
