Evacuate corpses from mortuaries to restore peace in South-East – Igbo leader insists
The spiritual leader of Igbo land, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, has insisted that peace, security and prosperity will only return to the entire Igbo land after all the corpses deposited in the morgues are evacuated and buried.
Speaking during an interview with journalists in Onitsha, the commercial capital of Anambra State on Monday, Ezeonwuka lamented that Igbo were fond of stockpiling corpses in the morgue, a development he said should be discouraged.
The spiritual leader stressed that the immediate burial of the corpses would save the spirits of the dead from wandering about and allow them to have eternal rest.
He asserted that the spirits of the dead lying in the morgues afflict the hearts of youths of the zone, influencing them to be hostile towards one another and at the same time causing insecurity and taking heinous crimes against God and humanity.
The spiritual leader insisted that the dead have no place in the land of the living.
“It is as simple as that. What is the point in storing dead bodies, if not to pollute the environment and spread unimaginable diseases in the atmosphere?
“Before 1983, conservancy service contractors were in the job of collecting human faeces and waste products to dispose of them. At that time, faeces and urine were collected together in the same bucket, leading to odour and pollution-related issues.
“This practice continued until God sent the Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon military administration to save the country from such evil environmental pollution, which was introduced to us by the colonial intruders.
“However, upon the termination of that practice, our people embarked on a deadlier and soul-destroying exercise of polluting the environment with corpses all in the name of ‘preserving’ them until when the family is ready for a funeral.
“One therefore, wonders what would have become of this country if the Buhari and Idiagbon administration had not abolished the bucket system of human waste evacuation; probably it would still be in practice today because nobody would see anything wrong in it. A lot of people who criticised Buhari’s administration then did not have knowledge of the miracle he performed for the country when it came to environmental sanitation.
Igbo spiritual leader makes argument for corpses in morgues
Ezeonwuka, a member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Grand Alliance AND proprietor of Rojenny Games Village, affirmed that many disembodied spirits are roaming about and possessing the youths.
He said this is happening “because their corpses are still lying helplessly in mortuaries scattered all over the country.”
He explained that the situation informed the Igbo adage that “na mmadu na akpaghari ka ozu akwaghi akwa” (people roam around like a corpse when a funeral is not performed).
He declared that there are spiritual consequences that come from stockpiling corpses without quick burials.
“Church leaders, traditional rulers and even political leaders must look into the situation and close down mortuaries in the country accordingly.
“If we truly desire sustainable peace and development in Igbo land and the country at large, all the dead must be laid six feet down to mother earth upon their demise and then a funeral ceremony can come later; otherwise, we shall continue to fight a lost battle.
“Christians failed the law in the Book of Numbers Chapter 19: 11-23 which warned the living not to mingle with corpses. Even the angels in Psalm 91:11, who God commanded to guard us deserted because they do not dwell anywhere littered with corpses.
“Let me say here that what Igbos are doing with corpses angers the Almighty God and the angels too. The negative consequences of what comes out of unburied corpses are so numerous, including youth restiveness, youth drug addiction, voodoo native doctors, zombies, armed robbery, kidnappings, fake pastors and fake churches, idleness, cultism, sickness and even death,” he enthused.
