MASSOB WORRY OVER DELAY OF CORPSE IN MORTUARIES

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has embarked on a consultation with critical Igbo traditional, religious and political leaders over the reckless keeping of corpses in mortuaries in Igboland.

This was disclosed on Monday, in a statement by its Comrade Uchenna Madu.

The pro-Biafra organization lamented that Igboland has turned into an unredeemed societal menace because of keeping corpses too long in the mortuaries before their actual traditional burial rites.

MASSOB howl at the increased rot in the society ranging from criminal tendencies, immoral exhibitions, and loss of traditional/cultural values in Igbo land, by the neglect of rendering traditional burial rites to the departed ones.

The group, however, vowed that it would not relent in exposing the neglected societal ill in Igboland and urged traditional and religious leaders to commence the process of implementing the initial traditional burial rites practiced by the forefathers.

According to MASSOB, “It is untraditional during the times of our forefathers to keep dead members of the family more than two days before burial.

“Igbo land has turned into an unredeemed societal menace because of keeping corpses too long in the mortuaries before their actual traditional burial rites.

“The spirit of unburied dead persons usually possessed the young men and women of our present generation onto societal immoral and criminal activities.

“The spirits of unburied persons hovers around the society where they once lived because they are not been accustomed to their proper traditional burial rites.”