Speaker Of Ondo State House Of Assembly To Be Buried On Friday

 

Necessary arrangements have been made for the interment of the late Speaker of the Assembly, Hon Samuel Adesina who died in February in a Lagos private hospital during a protracted illness suspected to be cancer. He represented Odigbo II State Constituency in the Assembly until his death.

The burial arrangements are as follows:

Wednesday- 23/4/14 - Service of Song at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Arcade, Akure, Ogun State.

Thursday- 24/4/14 -  Lying-in-State at the House of Assembly complex and Valedictory Sitting in his honour. Also on Thursday, the remains of the deceased would move to Oniparaga, in Odigbo Local Government area of the state, his home town, in a motorcade, for a Christian Wake.

Friday- 25/4/14- Burial service/ Internment 
Addressing journalists in the State Assembly yesterday on the burial plan for the deceased, the Chairman House Committee on Information and Orientation, Hon Oyebo Aladetan said the House had made proper plans to give the late Speaker a befitting State burial.

Aladetan further explained that the burial programme would be carried out in line with the culture of the Yoruba people and in accordance with the tenets of Christian faith.

 

 

He noted that the former speaker would be celebrated because of his contributions to the peaceful co-existence of the people he represented and the state in general, as well as the monumental projects that were executed in the state during his tenure as the Speaker of the Assembly .

Source: DailyPost