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A group calling itself Concerned Citizens has petitioned the chief of Fumesua in the Ashanti Region over his alleged sale of a swathe of cemetery land to a private developer.

The group, in a letter buried in a coffin along with two bottles of schnapps, and other material, accused the chief of the area, Nana Esua Amoako, of giving out the land without consulting the people.

The group also expressed reservations with the private developer, whom the leaders accused of exhuming the remains of the bodies buried on the property, and depositing them at an unknown place contrary without resort to traditional customs. The group said the chief’s failure to perform appropriate rituals on the property before giving it out for exhumation, is the cause of some recent mysterious deaths in the area.

Residents of the area were reported to have been gripped with fear after they woke up to find the coffin right in front of the chief’s palace on Sunday morning.

Caretaker of the palace, Opanin Kwabena Ofori, who is the Nkungya Suafouhene of Femesua, said he was informed of the coffin around 4am.

In the absence of the chief of Fumesua, a sub-chief poured libation and performed some incantations before the coffin was opened in the presence of police officers.