Five people were given 60 years in prison by a Minna Chief Magistrates Court 2 for possessing human skulls.
On three counts, including criminal conspiracy, trespassing on a cemetery, and unlawfully possessing a human skull, they were found guilty.
The defendants had been brought before the court by police prosecutor Inspector Mua’azu Abdullahi on three counts each punishable by articles 97.213 and 219 of the penal code law.
Ibrahim Jiya, Suleiman Usman, Abdullahi Usman, Idris Mohammed, and Isah Mohammed are the prisoners; they are all residents of Sakpe village in the Edati Local Government Area of the State.
The State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, was given the case after preliminary investigations, according to the Police prosecutor, who had previously informed the court that they had been detained by the police in Bida.
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The prosecutor also informed the court that the defendants were found in possession of a human skull in a Baco bag, and that during the course of the police investigation, the defendants had admitted to approaching a Minna-based herbalist in order to change their lives by becoming wealthy. The herbalist had then instructed them to bring a human skull to be used for the endeavour.
The prosecutor disclosed in court that “the five convicts in response stormed the Muslim cemetery in Nasarafu village, dug a grave in the cemetery, and brought out the human skull of one Late Yan Ndako Daniya who died three years ago.”
They all entered guilty pleas after hearing the Chief Magistrate Hajiya Fati Umar Hassan read the three count accusations to them.
At this point, the prosecutor, Inspector Mua’azu Abdullahi, requested that the court condemn the defendants in accordance with section 157 of the Criminal Procedure Code by using a summary trial.
The Chief Magistrate, Hajiya Fati Umar Hassan, then sentenced each of them to 12 years in prison on each of the three counts, with hard labour as the only possible alternative.
(Vanguard)
