We dug corpse to get the skull for money ritual – Suspects arrested with human skull confess
The police in Niger state have arrested five suspects for being in possession of a human skull. The suspects identified as 26-year-old Isah Mohammed; 28-year-old Idris Mohammed; 18-year-old Ibrahim Jiya; 22-year-old Suleiman Usman and 24-year-old Abdullahi Usman confessed they dug out the three-year corpse of one Ndako Daniyan from the Sakpe village burial ground in Edati local government area of Niger state. 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