Akinwale Akinbode’s discomfort was evident on April 27. He lost his cheerful posture after receiving the news that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu
had ordered bereaved residents of Lagos State should evacuate the bodies of their loved ones from the congested public morgues or give them up for mass burial.
A day after the story was published, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, gave the nod for relatives of deceased persons deposited in public morgues in the state to pick the bodies for immediate burial or risk mass burial. “We had picked May 29 for a lavish burial, with various activities preceding the date. Unfortunately, we had to bury her without any fanfare on my landed property somewhere in Ewekoro Local Government Area, Ogun State, due to the restrictions placed on movements to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.“The lesson I have learnt from the development is that throwing a lavish party to celebrate the burial of a loved one is not worth it after all.
“My grandmother’s burial was too ordinary, considering the pains she endured to nurture me after I lost my father who was her only son. I am still not happy that I could not give her a befitting burial in spite of all the money I had spent preparing for the event. According to Bola Babarinde, unlike four years ago when a society party was held for their father’s 82nd birthday, the solemnity of his burial rubbished all the plans they had made to honour his transition.
Frustrated by the inability to stage his mother’s burial with fanfare, Adebiyi Williams held a quiet funeral for his late mother, Madam Omotola Williams, in Ogbe area of Abeokuta penultimate Wednesday. “But we managed to get her mother’s body after paying accumulated fees to the management of the morgue and we gave her a burial on Thursday without any elaborate ceremony. In fact, we were not up to 10 at the interment.
Governor Adegboyega Oyetola subsequently announced the total lockdown of the state on March 29, 2020 in a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Ismail Omipidan. One of them is the Osun State Deputy Governor, Mr. Benedict Alabi, who lost his elder brother, Ambrose Alabi, on March 8. The deputy governor’s brother, who died at the age of 69 after a brief illness, was haphazardly buried on Tuesday amidst strict observance of the social distancing rule in Ikire, Irewole Local Government Area of the state.
“We had embalmed her in a morgue in the State Hospital, Asubiaro, Osogbo, but we took her body from the morgue and buried her in our hometown, Iree, after a brief church service held in a church in Osogbo.
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