News - North East - Yobe
Updated: August 07, 2022

Yobe: Residents Seek Help Over Deplorable State Of Cemeteries

By A'isha Ahmad
August 07, 2022
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Though some residents help out, the damage to the Cemeteries is too much for them to handle alone.

As the rainy season continues to intensify, residents of Potiskum town in Potiskum local government of Yobe State say graveyards in the area are becoming deplorable.

One of the residents, Abdullahi Ahmadu Mamman said the state of cemeteries is bad as most of the bodies have been washed to surface while other have sunk deeper into the soil, leaving the graves torn open.

There are eight cemeteries in Potiskum township that include Mamman Ali grave yard, SOCOL, Unguwan Jaji, Bayan Asibiti, Gishiwa Dabuwa.

Others are Jigawa Mazaga, Dumbulwa and Nahuta.

In the recent floods experienced in some part of Yobe, the graveyards suffered from erosion and collapse which gingered some community members to donate truck load of laterite soil to bury some of the exposed graves, but their efforts can only do little.

Potiskum Residents are urging the government to intervene as a matter of urgency saying the grave yard is everyone’s final abode, and thus the need for the living to take care of it.