Police operatives in Niger State have arrested a 16-year-old boy, Lawal Abubakar, for allegedly attempting to exhume a corpse from a grave at Chanchaga cemetery in Minna area of the state.
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Speaking in a statement on Monday, May 23, the command’s spokesperson, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the suspect was arrested by police operatives attached to Chanchaga Division on Saturday, May 21.
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During interrogation, he confessed to have conspired with one Salisu, presently at large, to get body parts and cloth of a corpse from the cemetery at the rate of N5,000.
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Abiodun disclosed that the suspect equally engaged in a similar act last year at Bosso cemetery where he exhumed and remove four fingers of a corpse.
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“He confessed further that he was sent by one Sadiq to get the fingers and was paid N3000,” he said.
