WHAT!! Drug Addicts Now Smoke Human Ashes Just To Get High

Follow NaijaDays on Twitter Follow @naijadays

Drug addicts are known for their reckless behavior. But the latest trend among the Nyaope children has shocked many. They supposedly have been stealing the ashes of dead people to smoke!

At Mooifontein Cemetery, Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni Cemetery and Avalon Cemetery in Soweto, there were cases of drug addicts (nyaope) who allegedly stole boxes containing ash from burned people. Workers at both cemeteries said many graves had been vandalized, allegedly by Nyaope smokers looking for ashes.

Families whose loved ones are buried in cemeteries have asked the government to tighten security. Norkem park police station spokesman Captain Lesibana Molokomme said several cases had been opened in tombs that were vandalized in the Mooifontein cemetery.
"We have opened more than five cases of vandalism," he said. Three suspects had been arrested, but cases were still in court. Molokomme could not confirm that the tombs were vandalized by nyaope addicts seeking human ashes to smoke. Johan Rousseau, president of the Funeral Industry Regulatory Authority, said the government needed to take action against the Vandals. Jenny Moodley, Parks' spokeswoman in the town of Joburg, said they had received no complaints about stolen ash.

Some of the boxes of human ashes that were vandalised.