It's no longer news that the owner of now defunct Chanchanji airline is death and was buried in Kaduna today in keeping with the Moslem tradition. The news now is that the crowd that gathered for his burial was so much that some person fainted.
Premium times is reporting that two mourners fainted as a result of exhaustion and hot weather as a mammoth crowd attended the burial of Ahmadu Chanchangi, on Wednesday in the Tudun wada area of Kaduna.
Thousands of sympathisers had trekked to escort the ambulance carrying the body of the billionaire businessman from his residence at Kwanan Chanchangi through Ibrahim Taiwo Road and Bashama Road, causing a gridlock along the about three kilometres route.
“We have rushed those two who fainted to hospital and have asked volunteers to share cold water to sympathizers on the road,” Sani Tahir, a volunteer said to our reporter.
The Kaduna-based billionaire was buried around 2:03 p.m. at the Bashama Road burial ground.
Mr. Chanchangi, born in Taraba State, died in the early hours of Wednesday along Kaduna-Abuja road while being transported to a hospital in Abuja over a protractive illness.
The prayers at the burial ground was led by a prominent Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmed Gummi.
Mr. Gummi prayed to Allah to grant the deceased eternal rest and his family, people of Taraba and Kaduna states the fortitude to bear his loss.
Mr. Chanchangi is survived by three wives and 33 children.
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