The bodies of eight persons who were killed during the PNDC regime are to be exhumed on 11 September at the Mile 11 Public Cemetery, off the Accra-Winneba road, for re-burial. The National Reconciliation Commission is scheduled to carry out the exhumation of the bodies for onward transfer to their families for decent burials.

The bodies are those of Kyeremeh Djan, Godwin Mawuli Kofi Dra-Goka, Yaw Brefo Berko, Samuel Boamah Panyin, Samuel Charles Aforo, Richard Charles Koomson and those of those of two unknown persons.

According to the Independent, its sources as saying that the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) has dispatched letters to the affected families under the signature of Dr Kenneth A. Attafuah, Executive Secretary of the NRC.

The NRC has asked the authorized representatives of the deceased to report at the Pathology Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on the morning of the exhumation. The paper's investigations also revealed that as of 17 April 2003, the NRC had obtained on application, an order from the District Court, Osu-Accra for the exhumation of the bodies.

The order which was granted by the District Court provides that the exhumation should be undertaken in the presence of a representative from the Ministry of Interior under the authority of the Minister, the Police Regional Commander or his duly authorized officer, a registered medical officer, an official from the Environmental Agency and a representative each from the deceased's family.

Christian Goka, elder brother of Mawuli Goka and Mrs Evelyn Owusu, sister of Boakye Djan both made a strong case for the exhumation of the bodies of their family members when they appeared before the commission.

The arrest, torture and execution of the said persons have become the sources of several commentaries by sections of Ghanaian society. - Independent