Police arrest man for allegedly digging up stepfather’s grave, cutting off head

Adamawa State Police have taken a 55-year-old hunter, Yusuf Garba, into custody for allegedly exhuming his stepfather’s grave and severing the deceased’s head.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, the suspect confessed to the crime during interrogation.

Garba, who hails from Tappare Kona Uku in Jada Local Government Area of the state, explained that the son of the deceased had approached him and demanded his father’s head for ritual purposes after his demise.

He said that when his stepfather died, his son had tried to take the corpse to Jalingo in Taraba State for burial, but was denied.

A year after the burial, the son returned and asked for his father’s head for traditional rites.

Garba claimed that he was pressured by his stepfather’s son, who he believed was a witch and could harm him or his children if he refused to comply.

He said, “I took a hoe around 4:00 am, went to the graveyard, dug the grave, and cut off the head.”

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He then returned home and gave the head to the son in a polythene bag.

The suspect further explained that after two weeks, the wife of the deceased, came to him and reported having terrible dreams since the head was kept in their bedroom.

Garba said he performed a ritual to stop the dreams.

The police spokesman, SP Nguroje, stated that the Commissioner of Police, CP Morris Dankombo, had ordered a discreet investigation and prosecution of the suspect.

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