Ilorin Muslim Community to exhume corpse of man killed by lightening

Date: 2017-10-11

Members of the llorin Muslim Community in Kwara on Tuesday said they would exhume the corpse of a civil servant killed by lightening on September 20, in Oro, lrepodun Local Government Area.

The Coordinator of the llorin Muslim cemetery and a lecturer in the University of llorin, Abubakar Aliagan, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in llorin.

Mr. Aliagan said that the llorin Muslim Community had perfected arrangement to exhume the corpse to give him proper Islamic burial.

NAN reports that the victim, a 47-year old Salami Adekunle, who was a staff of the Kwara College of Education, Oro was buried at a Christian cemetery, Okeose on September 21.

Mr. Adekunle was buried after his body was rejected at the Muslim cemetery in llorin.

Mr. Aliagan, however, said that the corpse was rejected for burial at the llorin Muslims cemetery on September 21 following the refusal of spiritualists to allow the dead body undergo prayer and bath ritual in the Islamic way.

Mr. Aliagan said that the llorin Muslim Community had secured court injunction with the approval of the state government and police permit to carry out the exhumation for the reburial at the llorin Muslim cemetery in accordance with Islamic injunctions.

The coordinator said that the Pathologists at the University of llorin Teaching Hospital, who would carry out the exhumation within the shortest time had been officially contacted.

On whether the family of the deceased will be briefed on the action, he said the family members were not part of the new arrangement since they had succumbed to the earlier burial.

The don said that the decision of the llorin Muslim Community to exhume the corpse and re-bury it in the Islamic way was justifiable since he died as a Muslim.

"We as Muslims have the moral duty to protect our brother who died as a Muslim but we were initially incapacitated when his family and the management of the College of Education, Oro allowed some ritualists to take over," he said.

The late Salami Adekunle, who hailed from llesha in Osun before his death by lightening was a staff at the Registry Department of Kwara College of Education, Oro.

(NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

IEDPU     Doyin Agbamu     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Awwal Jawondo     Taofeek Sanusi     Offorjama     Zainab Abass     Local Government     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Folorunsho Erubu     Shoprite     Babata     Yusuf Lawal     Samuel Adedoyin     Wole Oke     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     United Nigeria Congress Party     Col. Adedipe     Galadima     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Ilorin Metro Park     Toyin Sanusi     Rafiu Ibrahim     Kazeem Adekanye     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Kolawole Bashirat     Hassan A. Saliu     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Edu     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Okin Group     Florence Saraki     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     SWAN     Musa Aibinu     Kolawole Akande     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Lanwa     Oke-Ode     Old Oyo     Sabo-Oke     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Magaji Nda     Toyin Falola     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Shonga Farm Project     Issa Baba     Rasaq Jimoh     Abraham Ojo     Centre For Digital Economy     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Olabimpe Olani     Pius Abioje     Okeose Christian Cementary     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Oba Of Jebba     Niyi Osundare     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Sam Onile     Post Utme     Siraj Oyewale     Nagode     Isiaka Gold     Turaki     Taofeeq Olateju     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Salary    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Agboola Babatunde     Guber Aspirant     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Hassan Oyeleke     Folorunsho Erubu     Ilorin South Constituency     Shonga     NSCIA     Alabi Lawal     AbdulGafar Tosho     Gbenga Adebayo     Alaaya     Assayomo     Kale Belgore     Ajikobi     Taofeeq Olateju     Olusegun Adeniyi     Gbajabiamila     Abdullahi Biffo     Folashade Omoniyi     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Niyi Osundare     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Abdulhakeem Amao     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Segun Adeniyi     Kwarareports.com     Kwara 2015     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Ahmed Bayero     IF-K     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Wale Oladepo     Amasa     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Kazeem Gbolagade     Belgore     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Kayode Yusuf     IDPU     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Abdulazeez Arowona     Lawal Olohungbebe     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Lola Ashiru     Shoprite     Bilikisu Gambari     Magaji Nda     School Of Nursing     Babata     Local Government Pension Board     Amule Elementary School     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Olatunji Ibrahim     Oke-Ode     Borgu     Amuda Aluko     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Kuliyan Geri     James Kolo     Simeon Ajibola     Saad Omo Iya     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Danladi     Ghali Alaaya     Simeon Sayomi     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     JSSCE     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Jare Olatundun     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Olomu