Lightning struck a 47-year-old civil servant, Salami Adekunle, of Kwara State government to death on Thursday. The deceased was a staff of the Registry Department of the College of Education, Oro.
The incident happened on his ways to the registry department of the institution at about 10a.m.
.
Mr Adesola Adewoye, the institution’s Public Relation Officer, confirmed the incident saying:
“The staff and management swung into action immediately the deceased was struck, but all our efforts to resuscitate him proved abortive,’’ he said. .
Another issue arose when the llorin Muslim Cemetery, today, rejected his corpse. The Coordinator in charge of the cemetery, Dr Abubakar Aliagan, said the the deceased’s burial was unanimously rejected by the cemetary’s management after an instruction was passed that the corpse should not undergo the normal Islamic prayers and bath.
Aliagan said although the deceased was a practising Muslim during his life time, Muslims do not believe that his death was an act of God.
“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.