16-year-old arrested for attempting to exhume corpse from Cemetery in Niger State

Officers of the Niger State Police Command has arrested a 16-year-old identified as Lawal Abubakar for attempting to exhume a corpse from a grave at Chanchaga cemetery.

Abubakar confessed to have conspired with one Hamisu presently at large to get body parts and cloth of a corpse from the cemetery at the rate of five thousand.

This was confirmed in a statement by Spokesperson of the command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun on Tuesday May 24. He said 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 three thousand naira. The Case is under investigation as effort to apprehend Hamisu and Sadiq is ongoing, suspect will be prosecuted accordingly after investigation, the PPRO said