The remains of Flight Lieutenant Ibrahim Adamu Abubakar, the Nigerian Air Force pilot who crashed inside the MI-171 jet in Niger State, have been laid to rest.
As reported by Daily Trust, the deceased was buried in Zaria, Kaduna, in Islamic rites conducted at the Haruna Danja Jumma’at mosque by the Chief Imam, Sheikh Muhammad Sani Gumi. LEGIT NEWS reports.InformationGuideNigeria
In the photos that surfaced on the internet, the burial rites were attended by hundreds of people, including the families of the deceased.
The elder brother of the deceased, Abubakar Adamu, told journalists that a proxy funeral prayer in absentia was observed for the dead before recovering his remains after the tragic incident.JAMB Portal
According to New Telegraph, he said:JAMB Result
“When we concluded that we might not see the corpse of late Ibrahim, the family decided to conduct a funeral prayer for the deceased in absentia which was observed on Thursday as ordained by our religion, Islam.
“Such prayer in Islam is called Salatul Gha’ib and it is observed when the corpse of a deceased is not found. Therefore, as relatives, we have a religious burden to perform the prayer with or without the corpse.NYSC Portal
“However, now that the corpse has been discovered, it is also mandatory for us to perform another funeral prayer for the deceased which is not out of place. And that’s what we just did.”
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