Five persons were detained by the Niger State Police Command for having a human skull.
The accused admitted to the police that an Alfa had sent them to bring the skull for use in a money ritual.
The location of the Alfa could not be determined, according to the command’s spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who made this fact public in a statement released on Friday.
Abiodun claims that two of the earlier detained suspects, Isah Mohammed, 26, and Idris Mohammed, 28, both of Sakpe village, Edati LGA, led the other three suspects to them.
Two suspects were detained during a check of the passengers of a Mitsubishi Lancer that was stopped by members of a sister security agency on the 11th of this month at around 12:30.The two suspects were taken to the Police Area Command, Bida for questioning and further 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 prior.
“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 Abiodun.
The five suspects, according to the spokesman, have been sent to SCID Minna for a covert investigation and assiduous prosecution.