MOYO DISTRICT AUTHORITIES PUT A BAN ON BURYING IN TOWN AREA

By Ganiko Samson Bullen

Moyo

Authorities in Moyo town council have put a ban on burying dead bodies in the town council urging that the town is a prospect of future development.

The Public health act Cap 281 as Amended in 2023, section 107 stats that the minister may select and appoint by statutory instrument and proper places to be sites of burials and to be used as cemeteries or Crematoria for municipalities and towns and it shall be an offence, where such cemeteries or crematoria exist to bury or bun the dead elsewhere within the municipality or town.

According to the Moyo town council authorities, it has come to their notice that some families within the town consider burying their loved once within their allocated plots which was strictly meant for other purpose yet this is illegal.

Addressing Journalists, Chota Vivien the town Clerk said currently Moyo town has two authorized cemeteries one located behind DHOs office and for the Muslims, there is one in Besia cell opposite Moyo school of Nursing and Midwifery plus the one in the Mission. “Unfortunately people are burring in unregulated manner, this is a town these laws apply to the people who are in town.” Chota said. 
 
But to Drave Micheal senior citizen an opinion leader said as the town is struggling to get the municipality the population will rise and the cemeteries will not be enough. He added that dead bodies are buried on top of dead bodies due to the land conflicts even as par now.

Meanwhile Miaku Ipia frank the LC one chairperson of central one Village said some people are having ancestral burial places that existed before for the town council.

However the town council physical planner Ovofoyo Gad had this on land usage within the town council.

COVER PHOTO: Chota Vivien town clerk Moyo town council giving press release in her office. By Ganiko Samson Bullen