The Ghana Police Service has refuted claims that Dome-Kwabenya is under curfew.
Earlier reports indicated that two chiefs of the community have died for which reason the authorities have placed curfew on the community, such that the townspeople and visitors are banned from the streets from 7pm until morning beginning from Thursday through to Sunday.
But according to the police, the organisers of the funeral when contacted denied the said curfew.
The Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Cosmos Alan Anyan, in a Citi News interview said “but when we got to know about it, we quickly got in touch with the family [organising the funeral], and they denied that.”
He explained that the burial ceremony expected to take place in the community is that of a sub-chief and not the Kwabenya chief.
Chief Superintendent Cosmos Alan Anyan therefore said that residents can go about their regular routines since the claims being circulated on social media are untrue.
He indicated that the police picked up information that the shops in the area had been ordered to shut down due to the funeral activities.
But a youth leader in Kwabenya also clarified that “we, the Abbey-We family, did not call for a curfew. As we know, it is illegal, and only the appropriate bodies can call for a curfew. We only told residents to lock their shops when they close and switch off the lights because our customs demand we carry the body in the dark.”
