A ‘date’ with the corpses: Victims at 37 narrate ordeal

Drivers who were “punished” by military personnel at the 37 Military Hospital have been narrating their ordeal to the media in Accra.

The drivers, scores of them, for various traffic offences, were sent to the military hospital mortuary where they were made to work like mortuary attendants.

It was a time of floor mopping, carrying of corpses and fondling of the breasts of lifeless females who lay in supine positions, the victims say.

The military high command has however stated it would conduct an immediate investigation into the matter.

Narrating the incident to the media in Accra a driver Yaw Barima said some military personnel dragged him to the mortuary after being accosted for wrongful parking.

He said he drove a 23-seater 207 Benz bus and had been picking passengers in front the hospital. Barima said he was approached by a military man who said he had stopped at the wrong place.

There were no structured interviews, no diagnostic questionnaires; it was a straight match to the 'cold room', for action.

For close to an hour, he and his colleague drivers mopped dirty water on the floor of the mortuary amid shouts from a supervising military person.

“It was saddening, very saddening; we mopped the mortuary floor. They also asked us to fondle the breasts of the female corpses,” a driver's mate told Joy News.

Action soon

The military high command has however told the media it would conduct immediate investigations into the matter.

In an interview with Joy News, the director of the Ghana Armed Forces Public Relations, Colonel Nibo, condemned any such act by the military officers.

Colonel Nibo said the military high command would not hesitate to bring to book all those found to have been engaged in what he described as an unfortunate incident.

Listen to audio attachment in which a victim commercial driver tells his story. Attachment fetched from Citi News

Story by Fiifi Koomson