Nigerian Flag Designer, Akinkunmi for Interment After Waiting a Year for State Burial

The man who designed Nigerian flag, Taiwo Michael Akinkunmi, will be buried this week in Oyo state, where he lived.

This is coming a year after he died, aged 87. The delay was because the Federal Government had promised a state burial for him.

However, no plans have ever been made. And as they waited, Akinkunmi’s family have been paying N2,000 daily to keep the body at a morgue.

The flag designer’s son said that in June they found out that the Arts Ministry’s National Institute for Cultural…