Families of victims of last Sunday’s
Dana flight 992 crash have rejected a Lagos State proposal to give the
victims a joint burial.
The state had reportedly said that if
the families agreed to a joint burial in a dedicated cemetery, the
families would be allowed to exhume the corpses if they wished to
identify them further.
One of the victims’ relative, John
Akande, told our correspondent that the families rejected the option of a
joint burial because of the stress it would bring.
“The process of exhuming the bodies
could be tedious, which is why we rejected it. The government committee
and our own committee will meet to sort things out so that we can all
have the remains of our members on time,” Akande said.
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola,
who addressed journalists after a four-hour meeting with the families on
Sunday, said they (famlies) agreed to be patient, while government
identified the victims before their release for burial.
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