Police in Niger State have arrested five suspects in possession of human skulls. The suspects are Issa Mohammed, 26, Idris Mohammed, 28, Ibrahim Gia, 18, Suleiman Usman, 22, and Abdullahi Usman, 24,who confessed to exhuming three-year-old Ndaku Danyan from a tomb in the village of Sakbe, locality of Edati. Government Area of the Niger State Corps.
When interrogated, Isah and Abdullahi confessed that they met an
Islamic Cleric, Alfa Suleiman, who is from Kwara State in Bida in their
quest to get rich quickly and he told them to get a human skull which
would be used for rituals.
The duo said that they were directed to take the skull to someone
around the Kpakungun area in Minna with N30,000 and were on their way
when apprehended by the Police.
“We went to the burial ground in Sakpe village and we dug up the body.
From what we saw, the person had been dead for three years and he was
from Sakpe village. The reason why we did this is because we want to be
rich. It is not easy living in Nigeria. Life is hard and we want to be
rich so that we will leave this poverty and life of hardship,” Isah said.
Confirming their arrest, the spokesperson of the Niger Police
command, DSP Abiodun Wasiu, said that Isah Mohammed and Idris Mohammed
were arrested on the 11th of September by operatives of a sister
security agency on routine patrol at the toll-gate along Bida-Minna
road. He said that the suspects were intercepted in a Mitsubishi Lancer
vehicle, adding that the skull was discovered wrapped in a bag in the
course of searching the passengers.
Abiodun stated during interrogation, the suspects said three other
people aided in digging the grave where the skull was exhumed which led
to the arrest of three other
He added that the five suspects have been transferred to SCID Minna
for discreet investigation and diligent prosecution as the case is under
investigation.
