The Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano has approved a new burial law in the state effective May 14, 2020.

Anambra is a state known for carrying out expensive burial ceremonies, however, that might be coming to an end with this new burial law that the governor has assented to.

Details of the Anambra New Burial Law

According to the new law, all the communities in the state must have burial grounds. Also, funeral ceremonies of indigenous deceased persons must be registered with the town union at a fee of N1,500, while the erection of any billboard, banner or posters of any kind of deceased persons would attract N100,000 fine or six months jail term or both.

However, the deceased's family will not be fined or jailed if directional posts leading to the venue are not erected before seven days to the burial date and removed not later than seven days after the burial date. If the family does otherwise, they would be liable to pay the fine or be jailed.

The new burial law requires that the Commissioner for Lands in Anambra State create burial grounds in every community where rejected corpses and unidentified corpses would be buried.

Also, there would be monitoring and implementation committees and members of the committees would be paid a remuneration to be determined by the town union.

The law provides that the monitoring committee would be responsible for registering all deaths in the town, and giving clearance for every burial/funeral ceremony, as well as submitting records of the implementation of the law to the Department of Town Union and Chieftaincy Matters in the state.

Other provisions of the law read in part:

”The corpse must not be deposited in the mortuary or any other place beyond two months from the date of death;

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