Some members of Eziowelle Community in Idemili North LGA of Anambra state has broken the long silence over the exorbitant funeral cost in the community.

The community leaders have been accused of forcing every bereaved family to pay the sum of One Million Naira (N1million) as a funeral levy before they bury their loved ones.

On Tuesday, some of the angry members of the community spoke to the media expressing their pain over the issue. They said that bodies of their loved ones spent months in morgues due the inability of the family members to raise the compulsory levy.

The community stakeholders were led by Chief Felix Okafor and Emeka Akukwe. They said:
“As soon as the leadership of the town came on board about three years ago, they imposed a burial levy of N1million on every bereaved family in the community before they can commence funeral arrangements of their loved ones.
“This ugly development have forced many to abandon their loved ones in mortuaries for months until they can raise money to pay for the levy,”
The stakeholders who also accused the leadership of demanding a compulsory levy of N1million to the town union before commencement of any building in the community, said failure to comply to the directive attracted attacks by thugs.

Read Full Details: https://www.gistmate.com.ng/n1million-burial-levy-anambra-community-cries-out/

This is what happen when fraudetars leads the people.

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Fela was a prophet, double wahala for dead body and the owner

No problem
They should collect it from the corpse nau
No be the dead body die the death

Anyway this is from a blog called gistmate

Wonders!
One million Naira levy for what exactly?
Would make impact if same community can demand one million Naira levy for job creating ventures to benefit youths, and scholarships too.

people use to say nigeria is a zoo... i think dis news affirmed it!

Euopal:


The community leaders have been accused of forcing every bereaved family to pay the sum of One Million Naira (N1million) as a funeral levy before they bury their loved ones.

“This ugly development have forced many to abandon their loved ones in mortuaries for months until they can raise money to pay for the levy,”
The stakeholders who also accused the leadership of demanding a compulsory levy of N1million to the town union before commencement of any building in the community, said failure to comply to the directive attracted attacks by thugs.

Read Full Details: https://www.gistmate.com.ng/n1million-burial-levy-anambra-community-cries-out/

This one na strong thing o.

They shouldn't try this with Muslims who need to Bury their loved ones ASAP after death.

But this is unreasonable na. Even mortuary stay attracts fees and in a short time the motu aries in that vicinity will be filled up.

Then e go come be double wahala for dead body

this is nigeria
see how am leaving now
everybody is criminal

Nigeria is not a country

Obvious lie.
Bloggers, make una fear God naa.
I'm not from Anambra but I know a lot of measures have been put in place geared at cutting costs during burials.
For example,in some communities,there's a threat of the priest not officiating d funeral mass if you don't bury your dead within a month abi 2 weeks sef.
In most communities,there's no longer an all night wake keep,wake keeps end b/w 8-10pm.Failure to comply,a fine will be imposed.
Many communities have also banned cooking and sharing of food and alcohol during burials,just a crate of mineral/malt to d different groups,if any group want to eat,they cook and bring at no cost to d family of d deceased.

It can only happen in Igbo land. That's why many of their people result into drug business just to av enough to bury their loved one. This is bad. Whereas, they will be calling the afonja pple owambe stuff.

NOBODY SHOULD DIE FOR NOW OOO,
Hold your death

If person pay levy for 1 metre, how much come be the burial na?

Using minimum wage as a basis for an income earner...

The community leaders have been accused of forcing every bereaved family to pay the sum of One Million Naira (N1million) as a funeral levy before they bury their loved ones.

These are the people blaming Buhari

I guess people will stop dying there

destroying Buhari psychologically and emotionally is a task everyone should embark on if you still want a better tomorrow

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cilicmarin

This kind thing if ur family member or relative dey sick u go dey beg am make he no die because u no get money for burial. Lol

Maybe the 1million is for those who don't pay community levy of like N500 a year so when they die the family of such person is task 1m as deterrent to others to encourage community development.

But after spending years in Lagos and die they come home, when ask for community receipt they can't present,then they come to nairaland to post.

"community want us to pay 1million before we can buried our person"

Who is fooling who?

Barbaric

Wat if the person(dead) dint mek heaven nko.

Why are they lamenting?,they should simply chase the bald heads out of town.

igbo man the great businessman. U must also make profit from the dead. Na wa o

Euopal:
Some members of Eziowelle Community in Idemili North LGA of Anambra state has broken the long silence over the exorbitant funeral cost in the community.

The community leaders have been accused of forcing every bereaved family to pay the sum of One Million Naira (N1million) as a funeral levy before they bury their loved ones.

On Tuesday, some of the angry members of the community spoke to the media expressing their pain over the issue. They said that bodies of their loved ones spent months in morgues due the inability of the family members to raise the compulsory levy.

The community stakeholders were led by Chief Felix Okafor and Emeka Akukwe. They said:
“As soon as the leadership of the town came on board about three years ago, they imposed a burial levy of N1million on every bereaved family in the community before they can commence funeral arrangements of their loved ones.
“This ugly development have forced many to abandon their loved ones in mortuaries for months until they can raise money to pay for the levy,”
The stakeholders who also accused the leadership of demanding a compulsory levy of N1million to the town union before commencement of any building in the community, said failure to comply to the directive attracted attacks by thugs.

Read Full Details: https://www.gistmate.com.ng/n1million-burial-levy-anambra-community-cries-out/

how true is this story? Blogger una small small

Greed everywhere.

So where did these old men that called themselves community leaders learn their greed from since we always hear that the people of old weren't this greedy/materialistic?

Nonsense and ingredients, some lazy people want to sit down and earn free money, try this with a mean person and your family will be the next group to provide the one million burial levy.

21savages:
Wat if the person(dead) dint mek heaven nko.

Then the fee is 5 million

Not again! Anambra again? I have noticed two bad news centre in entire east for the few years and the two centres are:

Anambra and Imo. Every horrible news from SE no two way about it it's either Anambra or Imo biko una need prayer ooo.

1million naira for burial? Ok ooo