THE police in Plateau
State have arrested a 21-year-old man one Tacha Tali who slaughtered an
eight-year-old boy and removed his eyes for ritual purpose.While 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.
Salihu the father of the boy later 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.
The
commissioner of police 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.An the suspect named Kulime Nangkum and Tapyitda the
two co-conspirators whom were
herbalists.
Tacha
said that ‘’he handed the eyes to the herbalists to prepare a disappearing
charm ‘’
source:Tribune ng
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