{"id":16748,"date":"2019-04-10T20:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16748"},"modified":"2019-04-10T20:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:12:48","slug":"anambra-house-of-assembly-passes-bill-to-ban-expensive-burial-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16748","title":{"rendered":"Anambra House of Assembly passes bill to ban expensive burial ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

– Anambra state House of Assembly has passed a bill banning burial ceremony in the state<\/strong>
\n– According to report, the bill seeks to curtail and cut down the cost of burial activities in the state and to prosecute offenders<\/strong>
\n– The bill was sponsored by House member representing Anaocha 2 constituency, Honourable Charles Ezeani<\/strong>
\nA bill to control excessive burial and funeral ceremonial activities in Anambra has been passed by the state House of Assembly.
\nThe bill, which was passed on Wednesday, April 10, was sponsored by House member representing Anaocha 2 constituency, Honourable Charles Ezeani.
\nLegit.ng\u00a0gathers that the bill was passed after it had been considered at the committee level of the House.
\nThe bill seeks to curtail and cut down the cost of burial activities in the state and to prosecute offenders.
\nAccording to the bill, nobody shall deposit any corps at the mortuary or any other place beyond two months from the date of demise.
\nThe bill, which states that burial ceremonies in the state shall be for one day, stipulates that during burial and funeral ceremonial activities, the family of the deceased shall provide entertainment for their kindred, relatives and other sympathisers at their own discretion.
\nDestruction of property, gunshots, praise singing, blocking of roads and streets have been banned and defaulters will be punished.
\nThe bill also stipulates that nobody shall subject any relation of the deceased person to a mourning period of more than one week from the date of burial ceremony.
\nHon Ezeani, who sponsored the bill, said the bill has provision for monitoring and implementation committee that would enforce the law.
\nLawmakers were commended by the speaker of the House, Rita Maduagwu, for passing a bill that would stop unnecessary burial expenses in Anambra state.
\nMeanwhile,\u00a0Legit.ng\u00a0previously reported that peace may have returned to some communities in Anambra West local government area as governor of the state,\u00a0Willie Obiano, reportedly resolved the crisis between herdsmen and farmers.
\nSome persons were killed and others were injured at two farm settlements in Anam, a community in the local government area recently after suspected herdsmen invaded the crop plantations.
\nThe state commissioner for information and public enlightenment, Don Adinuba, said in a statement on Tuesday, April 9, in Awka, that the crisis was over.
\nThe commissioner added that the resolution was swiftly carried out following the directive by Governor Obiano to the state security council members.
\nBy Legit.ng<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Anambra state House of Assembly has passed a bill banning burial ceremony in the state – According to report, the bill seeks to curtail and cut down the cost of burial activities in the state and to prosecute offenders – The bill was sponsored by House member representing Anaocha 2 constituency, Honourable Charles Ezeani […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}