PHOTO-Ritualists Arrested In Niger State With Human Head

WHEN three young farmers of Gwari extraction in Niger state conspired

to source for human head in their neighbourhood for money-making

rituals purposes, hardly did it occur to them that the long arm of the

law might soon catch up with them.



The three suspects, whose names were 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.



Nemesis however caught up with them on Monday August 26, few hours

after 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 informed Crime Reports 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.