The police in Plateau State have arrested a 21-year-old man who
slaughtered an eight-year-old boy and removed his eyes for ritual
purposes.
Parading the suspect and his accomplices before journalists in Jos, the
state capital, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Chris Olakpe, said the
incident occurred in February at Shwar village in Kanke Local
Government Area.
Tacha Tali was said to have waylaid Goltona Salihu, strangulated him and
used a knife to remove his eyes.
The commissioner stated that the father of the boy, Salihu, reported the
matter to the police, saying that the decomposing body of his son, who
had left to graze cows, was found with the eyes missing by a search
party, which was organised after the boy failed to return home.
He said on July 26, Tacha was arrested with dry human eyes and
subsequently confessed, in the course of interrogation, that the body
parts belonged to Goltona.
The suspect, according to the commissioner, also named his co-
conspirators, two of whom are herbalists.
Tacha told Saturday Tribune in an interview that he handed the eyes to
the herbalists, Kulime Nangkum and Tapyitda, to prepare a disappearing
charm and the items, that is, the eyes, were returned to him after the
necessary rites were performed on them.
The police also arrested seven suspected members of an armed robbery
gang, some of whom were undergraduate students.
According to Olakpe, the suspected robbers, who had terrorised Jos
residents for some time, were arrested through a combined effort of the
police and other security agencies in the state, as well as members of
the public.
Items recovered from the suspects, he said, included eight live
ammunition, five cartridges, a knife, two televisions, a home theatre and
two laptops
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