The management of llorin Muslim
Cemetery on Friday rejected the corpse of a 47-year-old civil servant, Mr
Salami Adekunle, who was killed by lightening in Oro, lrepodun Local
Government Area of Kwara.
Dr Abubakar Aliagan, the
Coordinator in charge of the cemetery, disclosed this in an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in llorin.
According to him, the cemetery
management unanimously rejected the burial of the deceased following an
instruction that the corpse should not undergo the normal Islamic prayers and
bath.
Aliagan said while the deceased
was described as a practising Muslim during his life time, Muslims in his
vicinity refused to accept that his death was an act of God.
He said the performance of
traditional rituals on Adekunle’s corpse after his death and the instructions
warning against conducting Islamic rites on it was unacceptable to the
management of the cemetery.
“If the late Salami will sleep in
our Muslim cemetery, we have to do it in line with lslamic rites,’’ Aliagan
said.
NAN recalls that Adekunle was on
Thursday struck to death by lightening during a downpour
The deceased, who hails from
lnisa in Osun, was until his death a staff of the Registry Department at the
Kwara College of Education, Oro.
The Public Relations Officer of
the institution, Mr Adesola Adewoye, said the family of the deceased would meet
and decide on the next line of action to take on the burial arrangement.
(NAN)
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