Benin residents asked not to cook with fire on Sunday

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.