The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Monday advised the Ndigbo to stop keeping corpses in the morgue.

The group said the practice of keeping corpses of family members and loved ones for more than two days before burial was untraditional.

The MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, who disclosed this in a statement, said the MASSOB leadership had consulted critical Igbo traditional, religious, political and opinion leaders over the keeping of corpses in mortuaries in Igbo land.

The statement reads partly, “It is untraditional during the times of our forefathers to keep dead members of the family beyond two days before burial.

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“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 the unburied dead persons usually possesses the young men and women of our present generation to do societal immoral and criminal activities. The spirits of unburied persons hover around the society where they once lived because they have not been given their proper traditional burial rites.”

Madu said MASSOB would not relent in exposing the neglected societal values and evil in Igbo land. He appealed to traditional and religious leaders to commence the process of implementing the initial traditional burial rites ‘being practised by the forefathers.’