Money Ritual: Niger Police Arrests Five With Human Skulls

• Kazeem Badmus

Niger State Police Command said it has arrested five suspects for being in possession of a human skull meant for money ritual.

The Police said the suspects confessed during interrogation that they dug out the three-year-old corpse of one Ndako Daniyan from a burial ground in Sakpe Village, Edati Local Government Area, Niger State.

The suspects are Isah Mohammed (26), Idris Mohammed (28), Ibrahim Jiya (18), Suleiman Usman (22) Abdullah Usman (24).

Isah and Abdullahi were said to have confessed during interrogation that they met Alfa Suleiman, an Islamic cleric from Kwara State in their quest to get rich quickly, and he told them to get a human skull which would be used for money rituals.

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The duo while talking further said that they were directed to take the skull to someone around Kpakungun area in Minna with N30,000 but were on their way when they were apprehended by the police.

Isah said: “We went to the burial ground in Sakpe village and 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.”

Speaking with newsmen, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abiodun Wasiu, said Isah Mohammed and Idris Mohammed were arrested on the 11th of September by operatives of a sister security agency who were 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 Bagco bag in the course of searching the passengers.

The PPRO added that the suspects had been transferred to SCID Minna for discreet investigation and diligent prosecution as the case was under investigation.