₦airaland Forum

Expensive burials over in Anambra, as Obiano assents to new law

THE era of expensive burial appears to be over in Anambra State as Governor Willie Obiano has assented to the new burial law, which came into effect in the state on May 14 this year.

Highlights of new law, which provide that all the communities in the state must have burial grounds, showed that all burial/funeral ceremonies of indigenous deceased persons must be registered with the town union at a fee of N1,500, while 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.

The only exception to the provision was directional posts leading to the venue, which must not be erected before seven days to the burial date and must be removed not later than seven days after the burial date, otherwise the offender would be liable to pay the fine.

The Commissioner for Lands was required by the law to create the state burial ground in every community where rejected corpses and unidentified corpses would be buried.

There would also be monitoring and implementation committees and members of the committees would be paid remuneration to be determined by the town union.

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

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

”No blocking of road/street because of burial except with the approval of the appropriate local government authority; and

”No wake keep of any kind for any deceased person, while religious activity for the deceased person prior to the burial must end by 9:00pm; and there must be no food, drink, life band or cultural entertainers during and after religious activity for the deceased person.

Similarly, all burial ceremonies must be for one day and the burial services must start not later than 9:00 am and must not last more than two hours, just as no preserved corpse must be exposed for more than 30 minutes from the time of exposition.

It further provides that all condolence visits after any burial ceremony, must not exceed one day and no person must give the deceased person’s family a condolence gift exceeding money for one jar of palm wine, one carton of beer and one crate of soft drink.

In the case of women, there must be no demand of more than N10000 by her maiden family, while wearing of special uniform is restricted to the immediate family of the deceased person and church groups.

The law stipulates that Magistrate courts in the state have the jurisdiction to try offenders.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/expensive-burials-over-in-anambra-as-obiano-assents-to-new-law/

you say wetin

This is too much na no food, wine ah! Governor what's your problem sef


What do I know shaa

Always resist the urge to shalaye

This is a welcome development.
I'm in support of honoring the dead. But why the elaborate charade?

onye nwuru anwu anwugo!

Good one, they should spend more money on the living.

Ok

Good. When their parents was alive even bicycle wasn, t bought for them. After using their parents for rituals they will want to show off with their funeral

Its a welcome development.

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only heartless people would want more money and lavish spending from grieving mouners to bury their loved ones

as if charging people for love and marriages aint enough, you also charge them to bury the dead, still sell babies at baby factory


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ok

Anambra and Burials



I see no sense in spending much on Burial in the first place. anyone that's gone is gone forever, the money spent after the demise are what metaphysicians called illogicality of immortality .


immortalizing the dead with a memorable project is still fair than wasting money that could resurrect some families out of abject poverty, on someone that's not coming back again

Lies from the pit of hell me wey don dey save money wey we go use do celebration of life for my grandma. No stupid law can stop it

Burial in Nigeria is too expensive. We don’t spend that much for the deceased when they alive. But show it off when they die.

I don't know what to say o!

Na your money ahn ahn

When they get sick, nobody would care. In fact, dem no go fit buy ordinary panadol for you but when you die, OSUs can spend 10mil on ya head just for burial.


DEM DEY EVEN SPRAY MONEY FOR BURIAL

Strange

Odiegwu

Pple can now bury their dead peaceful

I support this

isoright
#for legends

Sounds great. Burials should be a time for sober reflection and not the anticipation of hot jollof.

Wooow

A fee of N1,500, while 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.

Happy living y'all!

We all gonna die someday!

Spending millions on the burial mean while they still v poverty in that same family... Nice one Mr.gov