Nigeria: In Port Harcourt, Increase in Cemetery Fee Raises Dust

16 February 2013

Port Harcourt — In Port Harcourt, the poor can no longer afford to bury their dead in government designated cemeteries as the fee has gone beyond their reach.

When a portion of land at the old Port Harcourt Township was allotted as a cemetery by the colonial masters in late 40s, the original idea was for it to be used as a burial ground for the dead irrespective of their economic, ethnic and cultural background. Before now, deceased persons' relatives pay little pittance as fees to local council authorities to enable them bury their love ones.

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