Police arrest man with son's severed head in Bauchi

Maikudi Mohammed, 25 has been arrested by the police in Bauchi State  for cutting off the head of his dead son.

The Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Police Command, Haruna Mohammed, said in a statement on Monday that the suspect was arrested in Misau town in the Misau Local Government Area, following a tip-off that he was in possession of his son’s head wrapped in a cloth.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect and his accomplice, one Damina Mohammed, had gone to a cemetery in Galambi village and exhumed the body of the deceased which head they removed with the intention of selling it to a ritualist.

The police said that the ritualist fled the community following the arrest of the suspects.

“On July 7, 2016, at about 3pm, following intelligence report, one Maikudi Mohammed, of Galambi village was arrested with a suspected human head wrapped inside a cloth by police detectives in Misau town.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect conspired with his accomplice, one Damina Mohammed, 26, of the same address, and went to a graveyard in Galambi village. He cut off the corpse’s head with the plan to sell it to their customer, who is now at large.

“The principal suspect confessed that the child was his son who died and was buried, but he later went back to the graveyard at night with his accomplice and exhumed it.”