Police Arrests Human Parts Dealer in Kebbi

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Nigerian Police

A 37-year-old man, Danbaba Umar, in Kaoje, Bagudo Local Government Area, specialises in exhuming corpses from graves for ritual purposes, has been arrested by the Police Command in Kebbi who.

 

Mr Ibrahim Kabiru, Kebbi State Commissioner of Police,CP, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday that the arrest of the suspect followed a tip-off.

 

According the CP, Umar was arrested at about 3:30 a.m. at the Kaoje graveyard while attempting to exhume a male corpse for ritual purposes.

 

He said the suspect confessed to the crime and revealed that he was sent to commit the act by one, Malam Muhammadu from Sokoto State.

 

A father of ten, the suspect told newsmen that he was a professional driver who was transporting wood planks from Zaria to Sokoto for sale prior to his recruitment for the criminal act.

 

Umar said inadequate money to cater for his family compelled him to engage in the crime.

 

 


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