Three
young farmers of Gwari extraction in Niger state have been arrested
after they conspired to source for human head in their neighbourhood for
money-making rituals purposes. The three suspects, whose names were
reportedly given as Saleh Ibrahim (35), Usman Lashi Sarki (30) and
Dantala Doma, a.k.a. Operator, (25) years had conspired with other
people which included a Fulani man simply identified as Gajere, now at
large, who had allegedly given them a dried human skull to go and grind.
It was further learnt that
another unidentified PHCN employee who is also on the run had promised
to get the three suspects mercury to accomplish their aim.According
to reports, on Monday August 26, Ibrahim lured a 10-year-old boy,
Ishaya Segi, from his father’s farm at Amale village in Shiroro Local
Government of the state, put him on his motorcycle and abducted him to
Lashi village, also within the council area where his two other
accomplices were waiting for him. Saleh was said to have urged the boy
to accompany him to his friend’s place in the neighbourhood,
after which he would bring him
back to the same spot where he had picked him. The victim was said to
have followed Saleh, unknown to him that he would never return alive. A
police source at the homicide section of the Criminal Investigation
Department, Minna have revealed that no sooner was the victim brought to
Lashi village than the third suspect, Doma, brought out a very sharp
cutlass and cut off the head. The head was removed from his body by
Sarki who is said to be a son to the late village head of Lashi. The
source added that during interrogation, Sarki confessed that he was
contracted to bring the 10-year-old boy’s head by Gajere for
money-making ritual. It was further learnt that during police
investigation, the boy’s head was traced to Saleh’s residence of Saleh
while he later took the police to two other accomplices. The police were
taken near river Erena in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state
where the headless body of the boy was buried in a shallow grave.
According to Saleh, he initially resisted when Sarki informed him that
one Gajere contacted him to bring a head of the little boy, but after
convincing him, he decided to go out in search of a boy. Efforts towards
apprehending Gajere who contacted the three suspects for the job had
not yielded any result as at the time of filing this report.
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