“I was paid N5000 to get body parts” – 16-year-old boy arrested for attempting to exhume corpse from cemetery in Niger state

“I was paid N5000 to get body parts” – 16-year-old boy arrested for attempting to exhume corpse from cemetery in Niger state

The Niger State Police Command has paraded a 16-year-old suspect arrested for attempting to exhume a corpse from a grave at Chanchaga cemetery.

 

The suspect, Lawal Abubakar, of Kasuwan-Gwari in Minna, was arrested by police operatives attached to Chanchaga Division on Saturday, May 21.

 

 

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During interrogation, he confessed to have conspired with one Salisu of same address, presently at large to get body parts and cloth of a corpse from the cemetery at the rate of five thousand.

 

Spokesperson of the command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, in a statement on Tuesday May 24, said the suspect equally engaged in a similar act in last year at Bosso cemetery where he exhumed and remove four fingers of a corpse.

 

“He confessed further that he was sent by one Sadiq to get the fingers and was paid three thousand naira,” the PPRO stated.

 

 

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“Case under investigation as effort to apprehend Hamisu and Sadiq is ongoing, suspect will be prosecuted accordingly after investigation.” he added.