Posted on: 03:51 Sat, 09 Jul 2016



The Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Saturday
paraded three suspects caught with
a human head in Niger.

The Commandant of NSCDC in the
state, Mr. Philip Ayuba, said that the
suspects were arrested in Mokwa
local government area of the state.
He said the suspects aged 34, 35
and 24 hail from Ekpa village in
Mokwa.

“I invited you here to see three
suspects that we arrested for being
in possession of a human head.

“After we arrested them, they
confessed to us that they own the
human head,” the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) quoted the NSCDC
commandant.

Ayuba said the suspects were
arrested on Thursday while
negotiating the sale of the head in
Mokwa.

“Our personnel pretended to be
bargaining with them on how much
to pay before they were arrested,”
he added.

The NSCDC commandant said the
suspects had made confessional
statements in writing, adding that
they would be handed over to the
police for further investigation and
prosecution.

The principal suspect told
journalists that his brother had
invited him to his house to see the
human head and assist in getting a
buyer.

“I looked for a buyer for five
months. So when I approached one
Isah to buy the head he agreed and
said that he has a buyer in Mokwa.
“When the buyer came we started
negotiating the price with him and it
was in that process that we were
arrested,” he said.

Another suspect claimed that the
head belonged to a decomposing
female corpse found during a
hunting expedition.