Maputo: Disorganisation and crowding for grave regularisation in Lhanguene cemetery – O País

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Maputo: Disorganisation and crowding for grave regularisation in Lhanguene cemetery – O País

1:43 CAT | 22 Jul 2021

Photo: O País

The administration premises of Lhanguene cemetery, in Maputo city, are seeing floods of people arrive to “regularise” the status of graves there. According to those waiting, the procedure is slow.

It was hoped that at least 10,000 graves would be regularised by next Wednesday, July 28.

Covid-19 prevention measures, meanwhile, are not being observed.

“We’ve been here for days. The services were supposed to open at 07:00 a.m. but they only started operating at 9 a.m., and will certainly shut at 1.30 p.m., like they did yesterday,” one person waiting told ‘O País’.

Another person told our reporter that the amounts to be paid to regularize graves was absurd and opportunistic.

“Just look at these old persons here. Where are they going to find 1,500 meticais? And most aggravating is this: just try to find out from the people here how many graves [of family members] they have in this place. Then you’ll see roughly how much it will cost them. It doesn’t make sense. First, they provide a bad service, then we’re in a pandemic and they force us to violate the Presidential Decree because the process ends on the 28th,” the man complained.

Some people were irked by the lack of guidance on observing Covid-19 containment measures.

“Everyone wants to be assisted, but there’s no organisation, so we’re all crowded together and run the risk of contracting the virus,” another person said.

The cemetery administration is yet to comment on the situation.

The Municipality of Maputo manages 11 cemeteries, one of which (Michafutene) is located in Matola.

Source: O País