We have enjoyed the legal angle on the case of Bayelsa, contributions to Hospital Paupers Fund were made to facilitate the narrativisation. We have enjoyed but still waiting to have the concluding part of the wisdom in Prof Jibrin Aminu’s lessons Hon Sadiq learned, because the contributions to the Hospital Paupers Fund Account wasn’t completed. Now is wailobe superstition and the call for autopsy with Hon Dasin
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By Hon Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin
The recent deaths of two male young adults from Ribadu is giving me a source of worry or concern. While one occurred in Yola, the other occurred in Bodere, a suburb of Ribadu. But both deaths were rumoured to have occurred in mysterious circumstances.
One died in a hotel room in Yola about two weeks ago. He was said to have arrived the hotel with two other young male adults who left him in the same night only for the deceased’s body to be discovered in the hotel room in the afternoon. The two young men he came to the hotel with never showed up till date and their identities remain unknown. From his telephone call log, it was said, he last spoke with his wife around 9. 00pm.
The second death occurred in Bodere village, a suburb of Ribadu just yesterday. The deceased, also a young male adult, was said to have died in his room where he slept alone. He was said to have cried for help few minutes past midnight and when people arrived, they found him dead. His body had nail piercings that seemed like he was attacked by a wild animal. I was informed by the people I spoke with in the village yesterday that he was attacked by ‘wailoru’ as ‘wailoji’ were reportedly seen by many people in Ribadu and around Bodere village.
What is ‘wailoru’? Wailoru is a Fulfulde word describing a myths among the Hausa-Fulani in which a man or woman could lie down on or beside an ant hill (hondorde) and roll over it (‘o talla dou hondorde’ mai) and become an animal, mostly a hyena (fouru). He (or it) would then go out at night and kill people. I have found out many things about this myth and I wish to share it with you here.
The fact that this is a myth (in case of death of the young man in Bodere) and the circumstances of the death of the young male adult from Ribadu (in Yola), I need to draw our attention on the need for autopsy to determine the cause of death in our society.
Traditional African societies generally and Jews and Muslims in particular have religious reasons for not wanting or in some cases for not allowing an autopsy to be carried out on bodies of deceased Jews and Muslims.
Inshaa Allah, we shall explain the necessity for autopsy in certain cases to determine the actual cause of death of a deceased person and then find out whether or not autopsy is allowed in Islam.
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