Ilorin cemetery management stops burial of lightning victim

The management of llorin Muslim Cemetery has rejected  the corpse of a 47-year-old civil servant, Mr Salami Adekunle, who was  killed by lightning during a downpour in Oro, lrepodun Local Government Area of  State, on Thursday

Speaking with newsmen in Ilorin on Friday, the Coordinator in charge of the cemetery, Dr Abubakar Aliagan, said  the cemetery management unanimously rejected the burial of the deceased because the corpse did not undergo the normal Islamic prayers and  bath.

Aliagan, who said the  deceased was described as a practising Muslim  during his life time, added that the performance of traditional rituals on  Adekunle’s corpse after his death and the instructions, warning against conducting Islamic rites on it  were 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 the  lslamic rites,” Aliagan said.

The deceased, who hailed 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.

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