Community restricts burial of 120 abandoned corpses in Ondo
Ikare Akoko community in Akoko North East local government, Ondo State have restricted some State health officials from burying over 120 abandoned corpses in the community.
Caretaker Chairman of Akoko North East local government, Hon Asimi Omojola said that Omojola said an official of the Ondo State Health Management Board (HMB) requested for land to be provided for the burial of the abandoned corpses but he was not around when the corpses were brought in for burial.
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The abandoned corpses were to be given mass burial and three local government areas Akure, Owo and Ikare weŕe picked as the burial places, the Nation reports.
It was learnt that the corpses were conveyed in three ambulances from General Hospital, Iwaro Oka, State Specialist Hospital, Owo and State Specialist Hospital, Ikare Akoko but the elders said they were not informed about the mass burial.
Oba Akadiri Saliu-Momoh, Olukare of Ikareland and Oba Kolapo Adegbite-Adedoyin, Owa-Ale of Ikareland said such practice was strange to them.
Oba Akadiri Momoh said burial of strange persons was contrary to the traditional values of Ikareland.
He warned that it could lead to traditional crises and abominable incidences.
“Therefore, such numbers of unknown corpses should not be brought to Ikare and it is against the tradition of the land. As a traditionalist, some dead bodies may be violent, some may died of some critical diseases which will have some effects on the whole community.
“But the issues need to be considered from various perspective apart from our own thought or imaginations,” the monarch said.
Chief Medical Director, Ikare State Specialist Hospital, Dr Ayodele Ogunlade said the dead bodies were abandoned and the state government considered it necessary to take them to different locations for mass burial.
The CMD assured that it would have no health implication as all the corpses had been treated with necessary chemicals.
