Superstition: Cemetery Staff Rejects Copse of Man Killed By Thunder

 

By Steve Oni, Ilorin

The Management of llorin Muslim Cemetery has rejected the corpse of a 47-year-old staff of the Kwara State College of Education, Oro, Mr Salami Adekunle, who was killed by thunder.

The Coordinator of the cemetery, Dr Abubakar Aliagan, who disclosed this to newsmen in llorin, explained that the cemetery’s management rejected the burial of the deceased at the cemetery following an instruction that the corpse should not undergo the normal Islamic prayers and bath rites.

He  said  while the  deceased was described as a practicing Muslim  during his life time, Muslims in  his vicinity refused to accept that  his death was  an act of God, pointing out 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 lslamic rites,’’ Aliagan said.

The deceased, who hails from Ilesha in Osun, was until his death a staff of Registry Department at the Kwara College of Education, Oro.

The spokesman 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.

The deceased was said to be leaving the institution’s examination office for the Registry Department at about 10 am when he was struck by Lightning during a downpour.


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