The Adamawa Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of a middle-aged man (name
with-held) in Ganji village of Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa, for allegedly
beheading his five-year-old biological son.
Arrested along with the suspect, was a village head (name with-held), alleged to have
requested for a human head at a fee of one million naira, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Parading the suspects before journalists in Yola, the Command’s spokesman, DSP Muhammed
Ibrahim, said the killing occurred on July 24, in Ganji village.
According to
the Police, Alti Alhaji, father of the first suspect, reported the case to the Gombi
Police Divisional Headquarters that the suspect took his son (Alhaji’s grandson), to a bush but
did not return with the boy.
The spokesman said when Alhaji asked the suspect where he left his grandson, he replied that
the deceased was on his way home.
”After a while, the grandfather and some members of the family went to the bush to find out
what exactly happened.
”It was after searching the nearby bush that they discovered the dead body of the boy, which
had been beheaded and dumped in the bush,” Ibrahim said.
He said when arrested, the suspect confessed that he committed the crime.
“ During interrogation, he confessed and pointed at a village head as the one who directed him
to bring a fresh human head, at a cost of one million naira,” Ibrahim further revealed.
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