Rains exposing corpses in Minna graveyard, residents cry out

Residents of Anguwan Daji, the community where one of the major Muslim cemeteries in Minna, Niger State, is located, have called on the state government and concerned individuals to as a matter of urgency take proactive measures to repair rain-damaged graves in the cemetery, a situation which corpses are exhumed.

The residents also called on relevant authorities to urgently look into the matter and attend to the graveyard before August when the state was predicted to experience heavy rains.

A resident, Mallam Muhammad Abdullahi, stressed that the cemetery needed to be renovated to prevent the outbreak of diseases.

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He said there was the need for the government to create a cemetery and monuments commission under the office of the Secretary to State Government (SSG) to take charge of graveyards and monuments, and that graveyard workers should be absorbed into the civil service.