The Honourable Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Ekiti State, Erelu Tosin-Aluko Ajisafe, has received in audience representatives of Operators of Private Cemeteries in the State, led by Dr Ayodele Olaiya to discuss the need for the present administration in the State to establish a public cemetery.
He said the enforcement of the law made sometimes ago by a committee set up under Dr Kayode Fayemi’s administration on the matter should become effective. The specification of the bylaw states that anybody who flaunts this law (who buries a corpse at home) will pay a certain amount of money.
He said the group is determined to stop the indiscriminate burial of corpses at homes, which, according to him,is not hygienic enough ,thereby posing as danger/ threat to people living in the environment
He added that the establishment of a public cemetery by the government of Ekiti will stop the act and further promote a clean, healthy, and epidemic-free environment that the ministry stands for.
He advocated for massive publicity through radio jingles and other means of advertisements to educate the populace on the adverse effects.
The Honourable Commissioner, while responding, assured them of the full support of the ministry, stating that their message would be delivered to Mr. Governor, who, according to her, frowns at indiscriminate burial of corpses at home as well.
In the meeting were the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. Babatunde Alokan, and other directors of the ministry.
