Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation at the Presidency, Dr. Tony Aidoo says he dissents the decision by some traditional rulers entirely banning their subjects from organizing expensive funeral ceremony for their dead relatives.According to him, the importance of funerals in the Ghanaian traditional setting cannot be overlooked and for that matter, families should be allowed to mourn their dead in whichever way they want, provided they have the means to do so.Many have criticized as a waste, the practice of using huge sums of money to organize funeral ceremonies on the dead, while family members wallow in abject poverty.
