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Thursday 7 June 2012

Dana Crash: “Their ghost may come after us” –Residents beg FG not to bury victims near house

Although, the practice of burying the remains of casualties in close proximity, or in the site where the incident happened is not a new tradition, but such a practice may turn into a nightmare for resident of the area where Dana Airline crashed and killed over 153 persons in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos. Some residents of the area have called on the authorities to bury the victims of the Sunday ill-fated Dana Air plane crash far from the area because of ghosts. According to a 24-year-old Idayatu Ali, “for fear of ghosts we want them to be buried far from where people are living”. The unemployed school leaver believes that human beings are no goats and when they die prematurely, especially, violently, their ghosts will haunt the scene for a while. “This is no superstition; I have witnessed where a young man died in an accident and his ghost continued to cry at the scene for days until a sacrifice was performed. “Please, tell them not to bury the victims here or else some of us will have to abandon our houses,” she pleaded. Another resident, Jude Agwu, said he and some colleagues could easily offer sacrifices to Ogun (the Yoruba god iron) in a bid to retard ghost from haunting them. Meanwhile, the South-West Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Iyiola Akande, said no decision had been taken on where to bury the victims. “This is a densely populated area and erecting a memorial here may not be in the interest of the psyche of the residents,” he said.

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