ANAMBRA PASSES FUNERAL CEREMONIES CONTROL BILL

The Anambra State House Of Assembly has passed a bill – The Funeral Ceremonies Control Bill – that seeks the reduction in the expenses of organising funeral and burial rites in the state, and to prosecute offenders.

The controversial bill which was passed on April 10, 2019 was sponsored by Hon. Charles Ezeani, the member representing Anaocha 11 constituency and had as its short title, “A Law to Control Burial/Funeral Ceremonial Activities in Anambra State” .

The passed bill provides that in the event of death, no person shall deposit any corpse in the mortuary or any place beyond two months from the day of the death.

The bill also noted that from the commencement of the law, no person shall subject any relation of the deceased person to a mourning period of more than one week from the date of burial ceremony.

Apart from the number of days recommended for burial ceremonies, the bill equally frowns on other flamboyant means of celebration that may cause destruction of property, gunshots, praise-singing, blocking of roads and streets during burial ceremonies; it also states that defaulters shall be punished in accordance with the law.

It further restricted burial ceremonies of any deceased person in the state to one day and no more.

The bill further stipulates that during burial and funeral ceremonial activities, the family of the deceased shall provide entertainment for their kindred, relatives and other sympathizers at their own discretion.

A monitoring and implementation committee was also established thereunder to enforce the law.

While families, especially indigent ones are expected to feel a sense of relief economically die to the law, businesses that have developed around the emergent burial ceremonies are expected to feel significant squeeze. Those include mortuaries, morticians, ‘aso ebi’ merchants, event planners, canopy/plastic chairs hirers, hawkers of handkerchiefs, envelopes, professional mourners, musicians, comedians and others.

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