Bury corpses within three days, IPOB urges Ndigbo

The Indigenous Individuals of Biafra has urged the individuals of the South-East to be burying their useless ones inside three days because it was executed within the olden days.

The group famous that protecting the corpses for too lengthy, as it’s presently practised was contributing to the main issues of Ndigbo in current occasions.

These have been made identified in an announcement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Highly effective, on Wednesday.

In accordance with the group, the current behavior of protecting useless our bodies greater than three days, months and years within the mortuary has had dire results on Igbo land and contributed to the ethical decadence and all method of evil which have taken root.

The group stated the one corpses that ought to be allowed to remain within the mortuary for greater than the stipulated interval have been these below investigation or with court-related issues.

The assertion learn, “Our ancestors have been burying their useless ones inside three days and that’s our tradition and it helped our ancestors spiritually. Igbos have a really wealthy and spiritually-based tradition which our ancestors maintained from the start of time.

“The current behavior of protecting useless our bodies greater than three days and even months and years within the mortuary has had dire results on our land and contributed to the religious weak point of the Igbo Nation and of all the Biafraland, ethical decadence and all method of evil which have taken root in our land.

“Now that IPOB has come to grasp that this alien apply of protecting the useless on land slightly than committing it to mom earth has had a really unfavourable impression on our individuals and upon our land, it has subsequently develop into very crucial to induce our individuals to revert to the previous practices that had very optimistic results upon our well-being, each spiritually and in any other case.

“After some thorough investigation, we’ve got come to the realisation that each one the explanations given by our individuals which brought on the pointless delay in burying our useless inside a brief interval are neither cogent nor necessary sufficient. These causes are all man-made largely financial situations from the bereaved households, conventional rites, church buildings and Umunna.

“Our individuals have turned burial right into a carnival and asking households to pay levies or debt for his or her useless ones. That is an abomination and should be stopped forthwith.

“Because it was in previous, bereaved households ought to be allowed to commit their useless ones to mom earth whereas a date for the burial ceremony is mounted for a later date in addition to no matter levies that should be collected.

“However utilizing causes of non-payment of burial levies to stockpile corpses within the mortuaries is what IPOB doesn’t need once more in our territory. Our individuals ought to revert to our previous wholesome custom of burying the useless and do the needful at particular occasions inside their attain.

“IPOB will have interaction church leaders, city unions and conventional rulers and Umunna on this regard. We’re advising them to arrange their minds on this clarion name as a result of IPOB will develop a method of curbing the extreme use of mortuary in our area.

“This technique could embody compelling the shutdown of so many mortuaries littered throughout our land. The one useless our bodies that may be allowed to remain longer within the mortuary are these in court docket or below police investigation.

“Igbos are shrinking in life as a result of we dishonour the useless by protecting useless our bodies in mortuaries for too lengthy than obligatory in these mortuaries. Any nation, tribe or household that retains the useless with out placing the corpse into the mud is inflicting a disservice to themselves.

“The Igboland has been changed into a huge mortuary the place corpses are dumped with the accompanying dire penalties to our land and this angle and apply should cease forthwith.

“House owners of mortuaries in our land should begin planning for one more enterprise. We aren’t in opposition to these engaged within the mortuary enterprise however we’re in opposition to protecting useless ones longer than obligatory as a result of we’re planning to march and we can’t preserve useless our bodies unburied earlier than we match.

“IPOB is encouraging our individuals on the necessity to accord respect to our departed beloved ones by burying them instantly. Within the olden days, our ancestors embalmed the useless in the home and buried inside three days.

“Ndigbo weren’t cowards and lazy however in the present day our land is devastated and destroyed fully by unknown gunmen and IPOB is not going to enable that to proceed.”