Don’t Keep Dead Bodies In Morgue Beyond 2 Months, Shun Obituary Posters, Anambra Govt Warns Citizens …Threatens To Jail Violators

Anambra state Government noted during the weekend that the burial law in the state still remains in force and warned residents and citizens of the state against violating it.

 Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the state Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu disclosed this in a statement he issued in Awka on Friday.

Nwosu noted that the state House of Assembly  had on April 9, 2019,  enacted the Anambra state Burial/Funeral Ceremonial Control Law.

The state government has threatened to punish anyone who acts contrary to the burial law while giving details of the law in question.

‘It has come to the attention of government that the burial law of the state is only observed in the breach by Ndi-Anambra. Government hereby wishes to reemphasize that the law is still in existence and applicable to burial and funeral ceremonies in Anambra state.

The Anambra state House of Assembly  had on April 9, 2019, enacted the Anambra State Burial/Funeral Ceremonial Control Law. The law states that the burial/funeral ceremonies of an indigenous deceased person should commence with the registration and payment of N1,500 to the town union.

No person shall erect any billboard, banner or posters of the deceased person. Persons are allowed to erect only directional posts. No directional post shall be erected before seven days to the burial date and should be removed not later than seven days after the burial date’ he said.

The state government also  warned that any person who contravenes the provisions shall upon conviction pay a fine of N100,000 or go to jail for six months, or both.

‘No person shall deposit a corpse in the mortuary beyond two months from the date of death. Any person who contravenes this shall pay a fine of N100,000 or serve an imprisonment term of six months, or both.

No person is allowed to block the road for any burial except with permission from the appropriate local government authority.

No person shall publicly display a casket for the purpose of fabrication and sale in the state, and any person who contravenes is liable to pay a fine of N50,000 or go to jail for one month, or both.

There shall be no second funeral rites after burial except in the case of legacy.

There shall be no wake-keep of any kind for any deceased person in the state. All vigil-mass/service of songs/religious activity for the deceased person prior to burial shall terminate latest by 9pm.

There shall be no food, drink, live-band, cultural entertainers during and after any vigil-mass/service of songs/religious activity for the deceased person’ the statement added.

‘Funeral ceremonies shall be for a day. Burial mass/services shall commence not later than 9am and shall not last for more than two hours.

No preserved corpse shall be exposed for more than 30 minutes. Undertakers should not be more than six in number and there shall be no undertakers’ display during the burial ceremony.

There shall be no burial on any local market day of every town in the state. No funeral brochure shall be made except for the Order of Mass/Service.

No person shall subject any relation of a deceased person to a mourning period of more than one week from the date of burial/funeral.

The magistrates’ court shall, to the exclusion of any other court, have original jurisdiction over matters specified under the Anambra Burial Law’ the statement also submitted-Team@orientactualmags.com
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