Johnkennedy Uzoma, Owerri
Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has said that he would want his body to be cremated when he dies.
In a press statement issued, in Owerri, Imo State, by his media assistant, Chris Mocha, the MASSOB leader during an enlarged meeting of MASSOB held at Ojukwu Memorial Library, Owerri, the Imo state capital urged MASSOB members not to bury him in the ground whenever he died.
He said that the ashes burnt from his body should be sprayed into the flowing rivers in Igboland.
He also pleaded that, among other things, that the necessary funeral rites according to Igbo customs and tradition were performed for him when he dies.
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He was quoted to have said that, “If I die today, get planks and tires and make blazing flames and burn my corpse to ashes.
“Then gather these ashes in different parts, make sure that you dump them inside the flowing River Niger in Onitsha, Imo River in Owerrinta, Ezu River in Amansea, Orashi and Ogbuide in Oguta, Omambala River in Otuocha and every other flowing stream in Biafraland.
“When you throw my burnt ashes into the flowing rivers, allow the streams to carry them away.”
He also said that every other burial rites due for an illustrious Igbo son must be performed for him.
He continued, “It is not as if I’m dying now, but in case, death is a necessary end that comes when It will come”.
Uwazuruike stated that his decision was in line with the lifestyle of Mahatma Ghandhi of India who, he said, was one of his heroes after Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
He reiterated his resolve to follow Ghandhi’s footsteps to the end by not taking up any political position whether elective or by appointment in proposed Biafran Regional Government.
