The Campaign for Democracy (CD) and Human Rights Liberty Access and Peace Defender’s Foundation (HURDE), have called on Governor Chukwuma Soludo to as a matter urgent importance recover all public Cementeries taken over by individuals and organisations in Onitsha and environs.
In a press statement issued in Awka ,Anambra State, the Anambra State yesterday, the chairman of CD in South East and Executive Director, HURIDE,Human Rights Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’Foundation High Chief Uzor A Uzor, lamented that there is no public Cementeries in Onitsha again as they have been sold and converted to individual use.
” There is no place to bury the dead Onitsha now.
The ones in Oraifite Street,Awada Obosi in Idemili North LGA and New Cemetery Road in Odoakpu, Onitsha have been sold out to different people.
The only cemetery in Onitsha is the one owned by the Moslem community in Onitsha along Modebe Avenue”, Odoakpu Onitsha, decried High Chief Uzor.
He called on the Anambra State Governor to as a matter of urgency recover all those Cementeries so that there would be a place to bury the dead in Onitsha and environs.
” There should be a place for people to bury their dead in Onitsha and environs.
All those Cementeries taken over and converted to individual use like the one in Oraifite Street Awada Obosi and New Cemetery Road, where private buildings,Chuches and residential houses are springing up should be recovered with immediate effect by the Anambra State Government” said High Chief Uzor.
He lamented that some of these Cementeries have been taken over by the two major churches in the state, the Roman Catholic and the Anglican church especially that of Old Cemetery Road in Odoakpu,Onitsha.
Governments should activate all the instruments in her disposal with the respective local government to move into action immediately
High Chief Uzor said: “It is very disheartening that parts of the Cementeries have been taken over by churches.
Those Cementeries should be recovered with immediate effect.
Government should remove sentiment and have the political will to do what is right and that is revoking all the buildings and churches and recover the Cementeries now”.High Chief Uzor Warned
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