The Anambra State Government has placed ban on public display of caskets for fabrication and sale in the state.
The ban follows the law passed by the state House of Assembly on Thursday.
Aimed at controlling burial and funeral activities in the state, the law also criminalises blocking roads and streets during burial ceremonies.
It equally makes it mandatory for all mortuary attendants are to report to the Ministry of Health on any corpse that has stayed beyond one month from the date it was deposited, while burial and funeral ceremonies of indigenous deceased persons in the state must registered with the town union of the deceased.
It warned that any person who contravenes the provisions will be fined N100,000 or six months imprisonment or both
