For the best part of three days, grief-stricken family members of Ashitey We at Teshie, near Accra could not be consoled or restrained as they poured their anger on the La General Hospital for the loss of the body of their late relative, Nathaniel A. Ashitey, popularly called Wofa Kwei. What was firing the anger was that family members from far and near had gathered all those days at the family house waiting to receive the corpse of their late relative for preparation and burial and for three days the various delegations sent to the hospital mortuary returned empty handed because they could not locate the body, a situation which had created tension among family members. Tempers only cooled down after hospital authorities appealed to the family to give them up to Friday September 28, to look for the body. According to Madam Matilda Ashitey, elder sister of the deceased, her brother died on July 10, 2007, at the La General Hospital and the body was sent to the mortuary for storage, since the period of the death fell within the Homowo festival. The family therefore decided to perform the burial and the funeral from September 21, 2007. The drama began when the family went to the hospital to pay the mortuary bills on Wednesday, September 19 and followed up on Thursday, September 20 in the bid to bring out the "body for de-freezing and subsequently for collection on Friday, September 21 but the delegation was disappointed when it could not locate the body of the late Wofa Kwei. Tension mounted when subsequent trips could not yield any results. However, the mortuary attendants assured the delegation that the body would be found since the attendant who received the body for the storage was on sick leave and would be called to assist them to locate it. Madam Ashitey said the whole family got alarmed about the news as the children of her late brother joined the delegation on Friday to the mortuary but after a long and frantic search of all the male bodies in the mortuary the body was no where to be found. The elders of the family were duly informed about the developments and they held a meeting and informed the rest of the family, especially those who had travelled from other places outside Teshie to go back to their various destinations while efforts are being made to find the body and for a new date for the burial to be announced. Source: The Mirror