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by Victor Ndubuisi
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has reacted to plans by the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) and Aladinma Hospital, both located in Owerri, the Imo State capital, to give mass burial to unclaimed corpses in their custody.

The group said the plot was an insult to “our culture and tradition” and “to the spirit of the dead and the bereaved.”

IPOB accused the security agents of killing the South-East youths and dumping their corpses in these two hospitals.

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The Biafra group stated this in a statement by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, which was made available to SaharaReporters on Monday.

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IPOB said, “Our attention has been drawn to the plan by the Federal Medical Centre Owerri and Aladinma Hospital to bury our brothers and sisters who were innocently murdered and slaughtered in cold blood by the wicked Nigeria security operatives in Imo State in a mass grave.

“The mortuary of FMC Owerri is filled with corpses of innocent Biafran youths slaughtered by security forces in different parts of Imo State, and they now want to hurriedly bury them in a mass grave. What an affront to our culture and tradition, what an insult to the spirit of the dead and the bereaved.

“We are, therefore, warming the Chief Medical Directors, CMDs and the Management of these two hospitals as well as the Commissioner for Health, Imo State to quickly jettison this plan. It is inhuman to bury the victims in a mass grave when their owners are still searching for them.

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“The security agencies have always denied being in the custody of the victims after abducting them only for their corpses to the dumped at the FMC mortuary. Some of the Biafran youths abducted by security agents in Imo State were taken to various secret cells in the North where they are now languishing under severe and inhuman torturing.”

“There must be a proper and independent investigation of how the mortuary of FMC Owerri suddenly got filled up with the so-called abandoned corpses.”

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SaharaReporters had reported last week that the FMC, in Imo State, ordered members of the public to claim the corpses deposited at the FMC mortuary.

It had given a two-week ultimatum for the public to claim all the corpses saying it would commence a mass burial for all the unclaimed corpses after two weeks.

The spokesperson of FMC, Achonu Jacinta, had made this known on Wednesday.

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It was learnt that most of the bodies included those that lost their lives during attacks by bandits in the state and the clashes between hoodlums and security operatives.

But according to FMC, “This is to inform the general public that the Federal Medical Center, Owerri, intends to conduct mass burial of the abandoned corpses in its mortuary.

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“Given the above, those whose relatives are missing should visit the mortuary hospital for possible identification and collection of such corpses within two weeks.”

 

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