The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have claimed that the issues plaguing South-East states are caused by lengthy burials, man-made conditions—mostly financial—from the bereaved relatives, traditional practices, churches, and Umunna’.
In a statement released on Wednesday by Emma Powerful, the IPOB’s head of media and publicity, the pro-Biafra group urged Ndigbo to limit the burial ceremonies to three days in order to avoid the consequences.
The group expressed sadness over how Ndigbo “transformed burial into a festival and asked families to pay levies or debt for their departed ones,” adding that this practice “is an immorality and must be halted forthwith.”
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IPOB, however, exempted bodies that were the subject of police inquiries or legal proceedings.
The statement read in part, “Our ancestors were burying their dead ones within three days. That is our culture and it helped our ancestors spiritually. Igbos have a very rich and spiritually-based culture which our ancestors maintained from the beginning of time.
“The present habit of keeping dead bodies more than three days and even months and years in the mortuary has had dire effects on our land and contributed to the spiritual weakness of the Igbo Nation and of the entire Biafraland, moral decadence and all manner of evil that have taken root in our land.
“Now that IPOB has come to realise that this alien practice of keeping the dead on land rather than committing it to mother earth has had a very negative impact on our people and upon our land, it has therefore become very imperative to urge our people to revert to the old practices that had very positive effects upon our well-being, both spiritually and otherwise.
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“After some thorough investigation, we have come to the realisation that all the reasons given by our people which caused the unnecessary delay in burying our dead within a short period are neither cogent nor important enough.”
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