Monrovia — The Palm Grove Cemetery, the once glorious final resting place for most of the country’s dead has now become the bush in the heart of the country’s capital with grass overtaking all the tombs and graves. Once the country’s national cemetery, it was threatened during June 1982 by Monrovia municipal authorities. The authorities requested permission to close the cemetery to new burials and to move the cemetery to a new location, away from its original Center Street site, but the cemetery remains in Monrovia to date. In 2016, the most famous and historic cemetery came close to being demolished by the Special Presidential Task Force headed by General Services Agency Director General Mary Broh. Madam Taylor wrote the Plenary of the Senate requesting the body to put halt to the ongoing demolition of the Palm Groves Cemetery.

Source: Front Page Africa March 09, 2021 13:17 UTC