A 47-year-old civil servant, Salami Adekunle, was on Thursday struck
to death by lightning in Oro, Kwara State. The deceased was a staff of
the Registry Department of the College of Education, Oro.
while heading out of the institution’s examination office for
the registry department at about 10a.m. when the incident happened
during a downpour. The body of Adekunle, who hailed from Ilesa in Osun
State, was sighted lying on the spot of the incident.
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Mr Adesola Adewoye, the institution’s Public Relation Officer, who
confirmed the incident, said that all efforts to revive the deceased
proved abortive. “The staff and management swung into action immediately
the deceased was struck, but all our efforts to resuscitate him proved
abortive,’’ he said.
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He described the deceased as an easy going, loyal and dedicated staff
who would stop at nothing to impress his employer. Some traditional
religion worshippers were said to have later performed some rites on the
corpse before it was taken away.
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Meanwhile, the management of llorin Muslim Cemetery, today, rejected
his corpse. The Coordinator in charge of the cemetery, Dr Abubakar
Aliagan, said 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.
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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.
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He said the performance of traditional rituals on Adekunle’s corpse
after his death and the instructions warning against conducting Islamic
rites on it was 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 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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