The Police in Niger State on Wednesday arrested four suspected ritualists with human head in Mashegu Local Government Area of the state.
It was gathered that three of the suspects, Suleiman Abubakar, 50; Babuga Mamman, 42; Abdullahi Dogo, 31, all from Sabon Pegi Mashegu, were arrested by police operatives attached to Ibbi Division.
Findings have it that the suspects exhumed and severed the human head from Kanti village grave yard in Meshegu.
The suspects confessed that they were contracted to get the human head for N2 million by one Nasiru of Koko, Kebbi State and one Muhammadu of Sabon Pegi, now at large.
Further checks revealed that the buyers wanted to use the head for ritual purposes, which they have doing for years, contracting people to go to grave yards to exhume bodies.
Dogo said that he was first contracted to do the job for N2 million before he involved others.
He said: “My worry is that we have not been paid the N2 million for this assignment.
“Nasiru and Muhammadu are nowhere to be found.
“The other suspects are in police custody with me.
“I was with these suspects whom I contracted to join me to the grave yard to exhume the dead bodies before when we were apprehended.”
The Command’s spokesman, Wasiu Abiodun, confirmed the incident at the State Command headquarters in Minna, saying: “Police is trailing the fleeing suspects.”
Abiodun said the matter would be charged to court after the conclusion of investigation.
