A 16-year-old Lawal Abubakar has been arrested by the Niger State Police Command for attempting to exhume a corpse from a grave at Chanchaga cemetery.
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The suspect from Kasuwan-Gwari in Minnawas arrested by police operatives attached to Chanchaga Division on Saturday, May 21, 2022.
Abubakar who confessed during an interrogation he 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.
“Case under investigation as effort to apprehend Hamisu and Sadiq is ongoing, suspect will be prosecuted accordingly after investigation.” he added.