Benin residents instructed not to cook with fire on Sunday

Oba of Benin
The Benin Traditional Council has instructed
residents not to cook with fire on Sunday, June
5, as part of activities for continuation of the 15
days funeral rites for late Monarch, Oba
Erediauwa.
The instruction is contained in a statement
issued by the Secretary to the Benin Traditional
Council, Mr Frank Irabor, made available on
Friday in Benin.
Irabor stated that
Sunday would be the
day of Edenagberen-
Mwiwu in the royal
funeral rites
programme and as
such, there would be
no cooking with fire, in
accordance with Benin
customs and tradition.
He then called on
Benin indigenes and
non-indigenes in the
kingdom to observe
the Igberimwin rite.

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