The remains of the chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, who died on Friday April 17 2020 of coronavirus complicated causes, has been buried in Abuja.
Kyari was interred at exactly 11:20 a.m. at the military cemetery in Abuja’s Gudu neighbourhood amidst tears of relatives and supporters.
He had died on Friday at a private hospital in Lagos, about four weeks after he was confirmed positive for COVID-19 after he returned from a trip in Germany.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had said that corpses of persons who die of coronavirus in the country can not be claimed by family members as such corpses are properties of the Federal Government,
The men who lowered the remains of Mr Kyari, from Borno State, were in full personal protective equipment as required by the Ministry of Health in the burial of coronavirus victims.
Though senior government officials including President Buhari, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, ministers, lawmakers and leading members of the ruling All Progressives Congress all shunned the burial for fear of contracting the virus, a large crowd of sympathisers still turned out for the burial without protective gears, thus exposing themselves to the virus.
