Stop cementing graves, MP Dombo advises

THE parliamentary committee on natural resources has blamed the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) for failing to devise controls over the increased cemented graves, reports Abubaker Mukose. The committee said cemented graves were a threat to the environment, if unchecked. Emmanuel Dombo (Bunyole county) said there was massive land degradation where people continued to enforce the graves with concrete. “This must be checked if we are to protect the land resource for our future generation,” he said. The MPs were at a two-day retreat with ministers and officials from the water, lands and environment ministry at Sunset Hotel, Jinja on Friday. Dombo said Africans had copied western tradition of concrete and cement burials which he said would end into a concrete basement in future if not checked.