The Niger state police command has arrested five individuals found with a human skull.
The police got a confession from the suspects, who revealed that an alfa sent them to obtain the skull for a money ritual.
In a statement released on Friday, the state command spokesperson, Wasiu Abiodun, revealed that the alfa’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Abiodun stated that Isah Mohammed, 26, and Idris Mohammed, 28, from Sakpe village in Edati Local Government Area, led the police to the remaining three suspects.
His words:
“On 11th of this month, at about 12.30, operatives of a sister security agency, while on routine patrol at toll-gate along Bida-Minna road, intercepted a Mitsubishi Lancer vehicle, and in the course of searching the passengers, two suspects were arrested.
“The two suspects were found in possession of a human skull wrapped in a Bagco bag; hence, the suspects were transferred to the Police Area Command, Bida, for interrogation and further investigation.
“During police interrogation, the suspects claimed that they got the human skull from their village and mentioned three other persons who aided in digging the grave where the skull was exhumed: Ibrahim Jiya, 18, Suleiman Usman, 22, Abdullahi Usman, 24, all of the same address mentioned above.
“The three suspects were also arrested and confessed further that the skull was dug out from Sakpe village burial ground and that it was that of one Ndako Daniyan who died three years ago in the same village.
“The two suspects said they crossed paths with Alfa Suleiman from Kwara state in Bida three weeks back. He instructed them to obtain a human skull for a money ritual.”
