Five people were detained by the Niger State Police Command after they were caught with a human skull for money ritual purposes. The accused claimed to the police that an Alfa had sent them to bring the skull.
DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the command's spokesman, announced this in a statement on Friday, Sept. 22. He continued by saying that it was impossible to determine the Alfa's location.
Isah Mohammed, 26, and Idris Mohammed, 28, both of Sakpe village, Edati LGA, were two of the suspects who had already been detained, according to Abiodun, and they were taken to the other three suspects.
"On the 11th of this month, at around 12:30, while on routine patrol at the toll-gate along the Bida-Minna road, operatives of a sister security agency intercepted a Mitsubishi Lancer vehicle, and in the course of searching the passengers, two suspects were arrested," states the statement.
"The two suspects were brought to the Police Area Command, Bida for questioning and more investigation after it was discovered that they were in possession of a human skull wrapped in a Bagco bag.
The suspects told police that they received the human skull from their village during questioning. They also named three other people who helped them dig the pit where the skull was discovered: Ibrahim Jiya (18), Suleiman Usman (22), and Abdullahi Usman (24), all of whom lived at the same address as before.
The three suspects were also detained and admitted further that the skull was taken from the Sakpe village cemetery and that it belonged to a man named Ndako Daniyan who passed away there three years earlier.
"Isah and Abdullahi claimed to have met one Alfa Suleiman from Kwara State at Bida three weeks ago who told them to get a human skull for money ritual purposes and instructed them to take it to someone in Minna with only 30,000 naira, while the unidentified recipient said that when they get to Kpakungu, they should call him and he would meet them," according to the report.
The five suspects, according to the spokesman, have been sent to SCID Minna for a covert investigation and assiduous prosecution.
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