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 on Thursday.

 The Coordinator of the cemetery, Dr Abubakar Aliagan, who disclosed this to newsmen in llorin, Kwara state capital, 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 practising 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  the 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 a.m  on Thursday when he was struck by Lightning during a downpour.