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 newsmen 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 was unacceptable to the management of the cemetery, adding that
the burial of the deceased in the Muslim Cemetery must also be in line
with Islamic tenets.
“If the late Salami will sleep in our
Muslim cemetery, we have to do it in line with lslamic rites,’’ Aliagan
said. 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.
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