As Anambra State government intensifies effort to check the spread of COVID 19 Virus across the state, it has issued a directive to all communities to shun any social gathering of more than thirty persons, as one of the precautionary measures.
Correspondent Emengini Osadebe who went round Onitsha Town to monitor the situation reports that there was total compliance by the people.
Earlier before the restriction order, Onitsha Town usually experience heavy presence of social gatherings, including wedding ceremonies, burials, title taking among other activities.
But, with the emergence of coronavirus and its attendant consequences and in compliance with the state governments directive, such gatherings have reduced to the bearest minimum in the town.
Some families that lost their loved ones have complied with the directive to quietly bury their dead without Fanfare, in the presence of their immediate family members of not more than thirty persons.
ABS equally ran into a burial ceremony of an Ozo titled man in Ogbeabo village Onitsha, of which ordinarily, would have been Fanfare, but the family adhered strictly to the state governments directive.
In separate interviews, the Chief mourner, Mr. Ossy Umunna who spoke on behalf of Ogbeabo family Head, Chief Emma Okechukwu and the Head of Umuada Mrs. Ngozi Chukwura said after due consultations, they have to comply and obey the order as directed by the state government, noting that their brother who died at the ripe age of eighty four, will be given a befitting burial once the Corona Virus pandemic is over.
Others who spoke to the ABS, including Messers Ernest Emegokwue and Obiora Nnoka, commended the efforts of the Anambra state government, which they said will help in curbing the Virus and urged other villages in Onitsha and communities in the State to always obey the preventive order by the state government.
The Traditional Ruler of Onitsha Igwe Alfred Achebe had eelier sent circulars to all the village Heads in the town to ensure total compliance with the state government’s directive.
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