A Minna, Niger State Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the remand of a 55-year-old woman, Fatima Tsaraka, for allegedly killing her grandson.
Tsaraka, arraigned alongside Amina Mohammed, 65, and Zhitsun Aliyu, 38, is facing a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and cannibalism.
The accused were arraigned on September 1, but the prosecutor requested an adjournment to enable police conclude investigation.
At the resumed hearing of the case, the Magistrate, Hamidu Bima, ordered the continued detention of the accused pending legal advice from the State Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
Bima subsequently adjourned the case to September 25.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Corporal Moses Mbaga, had told the court that the victim’s father, Mohammed Doko of Koso Village, Lavun Local Government Area, reported the matter at ‘A’ Division Police Station, Bida on August 15.
Mbaga said the complainant alleged that the accused abducted the boy, took him to a nearby bush where they slaughtered him, made a meal of his flesh and drank his blood.
The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 97, 221 and 218 of the penal code.
The accused, who pleaded guilty to the charges, however appealed for leniency and blamed their act on a spell cast on them by witches.
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