Anambra Burial Law, infringement on cultural values and fundamental rights of citizens.

By Sam Nwosu

In all society across planet earth, there are laws that are impossible to enforce, there are those that are enforceable. If any government structure, be it autocracy, plutocracy, parliamentary, dictatorship, communism, democracy or any nomenclature, attempts to force unpopular laws down citizens throat it always ends in disaster, the action results to disobedience, resistance or outright revolution.

This is especially where the law has to do with infringement on cultural values and fundamental rights of citizens, no government wins such war. This stupid laws only exposes the empty headedness of the state assembly members, an assembly mostly populated by FSLC or NECO certificate holders a good number even forged. If they were sound in reasoning they would have taken into consideration how impassible it is to enforce such laws especially in a state like Anambra that is populated by very proud,stubborn, well traveled and well to do individuals. The confused law makers didn’t even consider the economic impact of the silly law on the entire state. When you see people from around the country flocking the state on weekends 90% of the visitors come for burials and traditional marriages, they bring serious money into the state. Food vendors, hotels, spare parts dealers, students, women of easy virtues, transporters, super markets, every aspect of the state economy thrives and the government collects its taxes. The multiplier effect on the wellbeing of the businesses and residents can never be quantified. All over the world countries and states thrive on tourism, they will do anything to protect their tourism industry and here our law makers want to do the opposite.

In Anambra state marriages and funeral ceremonies has been elevated to serious tourism industry. The politicians in the churches masquerading as religious leaders are behind this misconceived attempt to infringe on human rights of citizens. They do not want people to spend money on burials in honour of those that toiled to raise them, simply because the self acclaimed saviours want the money spent on their business centres called churches, which they operate primarily to intimidate and fleece people. They surreptitiously condemn any action that will reduce their source of income which they use to maintain their expensive lifestyles.

The God we serve is not a begger God that must be appeased with money. The pretenders to the throne of God will manipulate the government and the law makers through self idolatry preachings or private duscussions using the holy book to give verve to their postulation into making very unpopular laws.

The only other reason I see is that government need to improve its revenues so have decided to pretentiously tax funerals, if I am right I think they got it wrong, they should have come straight to say if you want an expensive funeral you pay tax of 100k to the government, of course there will be grumbles here and there but eventually everybody will pay.
If you try to infringe on citizens rights you will be vehemently and collectively resisted.

Nkea adabaro cha cha!

Source: Anambra Mirrow