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.

Ilorin Innovation Hub     KWTV     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Abubakar B.M     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Okin High School     James Kolo     Shola Odetundun     Senate     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Tanke Road     Ilorin Durbar     Magaji Erubu     Adeniyi Ojo     Yahaya Seriki     Tsaragi-Share     Jelili Yusuf     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Ayekale     Surajudeen Akanbi     Mutawali     Olaitan Buraimoh     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Omotosho     Babaloja-General     General Hospital, Ilorin     Kazeem Oladepo     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Egbejila     Modibo Kawu     Quranic Recitation Competition     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Yinka Aluko     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Salman Suleiman     Solomon Edoja     Oju Ekun Sarumi     NaAllah     Paul Odama     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Aliyu Sabi     Saliu Ajia     Olushola Saraki     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Elections     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Ekiti     Saheed Popoola     Agboola Abdulraheem     3MTT     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Modupe Oluwole     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Shehu Alimi Foundation     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Bolaji Aladie     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Halimat Yusuf     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Kawu     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Wasiu Onidugbe     Otuka     Ajakaye     Baruten     Umar Ayinla Saro     Tuesday Assayomo     Ahman Pategi University     Monsurat Omotosho    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Durbar Festival     Kazeem Adekanye     Yusuf A. Usman     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Maryam A. Garuba     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Twitter     Lanre Aremu     ER-KANG     Aliyu Umar     Ballah     Abubakar Imam     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Adeleke Ogungbe     Roseline Oni Aremu     Ibrahim Mashood     Modibo Kawu     KWASIEC     Law School Scholarship     08001000100     Oyin-Zubair     Suleman Abubakar     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Popo-Igbonna     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Issa Baba     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Doyin Agbamu     Kisira     Ilorin Like-Minds     3MTT     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Idowu Laro     Osinbajo     Folashade Omoniyi     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Kaiama     Women Radio     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Elerinjare-Ibobo     David Oyedepo     Kwabes     HYPPADEC     Ayobami Seriki     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Najim Yaasin     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Ayinke Saka     COVID-19 Palliatives     Muhammed Danjuma     The Herald     Ahmad Uthman     Jamiu Oyawoye     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Kolawole Akande     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Sebastine Obasi     Balogun Ajikobi     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Tayo Alao     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Convocation Ceremonies     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Kayode Ibrahim     Aso Ofi     Hijab     Aliyu Muhammed     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Aro Yahaya     Ahmad Lawan