Trooper Sherrif Imoro, the young soldier killed by yet-to-be-arrested assailants was buried on March 9, 2023 after he had been given a military parade by his colleagues.
He was marched in a military convoy and his bier was carried by fully clothed peers to the military cemetery in Burma Camp for burial.
It was at the graveside that his remains were handed over to his Muslim family members for burial, earlier on, after his release from the mortuary, he was also given the janaa’iza (Islamic funeral prayers).
According to an acquaintance, despite the Islamic prayers and burial, Sherrif Imoro had quite deep roots in the Roman Catholic faith but had yet to receive the First Communion.
Elvis Andoh, a broadcast journalist with Metro TV spoke about how Sherrif ended up in the church: “Sherrif Imoro joined the Catholic Church because of the trumpet that we train the young ones on.
“He came in as a Muslim and the group that trains them is open to any other youth that is willing to work for the advancement of its aim, that is charity and an appeal to help the poor,’ he narrated on the March 9 edition of Good Evening Ghana programme.
“He joined at age 12 and was good hence maintained but he inwardly wanted to be a Catholic, so he converted and started going for the Catechism and that is how he managed to grow up in the Catholic faith,” Elvis disclosed adding that Sherrif had joined the CYO having started from Infant Jesus and moved to Christian soldiers.
Asked whether he had taken the communion, he responded: “He was preparing to take first communion…. The decision was made but his training took him away. It is alleged that the family was not too happy and wanted him to remain Muslim,” Elvis stressed.
