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MASSOB Requires Ban on Maintaining Corpses in Mortuaries, Says It Fuels Crime in Igbo Land
The Motion for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has urged South-East governors and non secular leaders to ban the follow of preserving corpses in mortuaries, citing religious and societal penalties.
The group additionally referred to as on church buildings to cease permitting caskets and corpses into locations of worship throughout funerals, insisting that such practices defile the sanctity of the church.
In a press release launched on Monday, March 10, MASSOB chief, Comrade Uchenna Madu, warned that unburied corpses in mortuaries stay stressed, influencing younger individuals in the direction of crime, immorality, and violence.
“The wandering and stressed spirits of unburied lifeless our bodies in mortuaries repeatedly possess younger individuals, main them into varied legal, evil, and depraved acts with out concern of the results,” Madu said.
He additional claimed that these religious influences have corrupted the ethical material of society, changing godly values with a thirst for bloodshed, materialism, and illicit wealth acquisition.
In response to Madu, the rising development of extended corpse preservation has contributed to the rise of get-rich-quick mindsets amongst Igbo youths.
MASSOB additionally pressured that it’s towards Igbo custom to maintain corpses for greater than 4 market days, calling on South-East governors to outlaw the mortuary enterprise.
“The spirit of a lifeless particular person can’t relaxation till it’s buried. The presence of corpses in church buildings corrupts the holiness of the home of God. We urge conventional rulers, spiritual leaders, and governors to take motion and ban this follow,” the assertion added.
The group appealed for fast intervention to revive cultural values and curb the detrimental societal influence of preserving our bodies in mortuaries for prolonged durations.
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