It was a beautiful procession of children, grandchildren and extended family members as they gaily walked singing and dancing with different vehicles following them.
“The funeral service guys really impressed me. The pallbearers really did well but it comes at a cost. But I believe that everything they billed us for was worth it.” But for some time, the spectacle has ebbed with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some lost their loved ones to coronavirus thereby making it difficult for any elaborate funeral.
He said, “I have been doing this business for over 25 years and something like this has never happened. I don’t think anyone ever foresaw that a thing like this would ever happen.”Pedro stated that in his entire time of being in the business of funeral services, he never knew that a time would come when people would not be able to bury their dead for months.
Also, Mr Saheed Akintunde of Ebony Funeral Services said he never thought a pandemic would emerge to disrupt funeral business in Nigeria. For the Head of Operations, Omega Funeral Home, Anuoluwapo Ahmed, coronavirus has a negative effect on their business. According to him, many who fixed the period for burials postponed them.
Pedro said, “The COVID-19 pandemic affected people globally and we in the funeral sector are no exception. When something like this happens, we just have to live. “Before COVID-19 pandemic came, on an average, we had about four to six burials per week, but then we got little or nothing. As a business person, we really experienced setbacks.
Boye said, “It was when the lockdown was eased that we started to offer few services like non-ceremonial burials. We only help to transport the corpses and bury them.”Many of the funeral homes said they had chosen to look at the bright side, hoping that business would pick up fully soon despite still coping with the effects of the pandemic.
Besides, Pedro told our correspondent that though things appeared to be picking up in the sector, things weren’t the same. He said, “We are still going through a lot. But we thank God. Before the pandemic, we usually held six to seven burials in a week but now we now do like two or three funerals in a week.”
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Make una bury each other first, awon werey 😀😀, normal normal who wan die before, no circumstances dey cause death na, these were people con dey turn am to compulsory make people die, moreover people dying at this time are not worth fanfare burial at all too young
Sorry oooo, Pandemic will be over soon....😀😀
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