16-yr-old human parts thi£f, Lawal Abubakar, caught on duty at a cemetery in Niger State

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.

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.

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.

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. 

“He confessed further that he was sent by one Sadiq to get the fingers and was paid N3000,” he said.