The Delta State police command says its men have arrested a suspected native doctor, one Godfrey Akpudje, 60, with two human skulls.
Akpudje’s arrest followed a report lodged at the Isiokolo Division by one Ejiro Okoro, 35, that the corpse of his late sister (name withheld) who died sometime in 2019 and was buried at Ekpan Ovu, had been exhumed by unknown persons.
The Divisional Police Officer, Isiokolo Division, immediately detailed detectives to investigate, and Akpudje was arrested.
Two human skulls were recovered from him, one of them believed to be that of the complainant’s late sister.
Akpudje told police he got one of the human skulls from a native doctor in Osun State.
In another development, the command’s spokesman, Bright Edafe, said in a statement that a team of police officers on routine patrol on Monday June 28 apprehended three suspects with a container filled with fresh human blood.
The officers had stopped a commercial Toyota Sienna van along the Ogwashi-Uku/Kwale road, travelling from Asaba to Kwale.
All the passengers were asked to submit themselves for search, and the three suspects were apprehended.
The three suspects are Monday Nwite, 27; Madabuchi Nweke, 26, and Nwite Sunday, 21.
“During interrogation, the suspects confessed to have murdered some unknown persons in Ebonyi State and were on their way with the murdered person’s blood to a native doctor whose identity is unknown for now but resides in Kwale.
“They were taking the blood to the said native doctor for ritual purposes.,” Bright said.
One rosary necklace tied with charms was also recovered from them.