CULTISTS IN MINNA KILL AND EAT NINE YEAR OLD BOY!

The Police in Niger State have apprehended an unusual cult group which specializes in eating roasted human flesh among its members and they confirmed this incident occurred on the 21^st of August 2014.

The Crime & Security department gathered that the 9-year-old Umar, went to stay with his mother Fatima since the father - Mohammed (surname withheld) was to go on a journey. When the father left, his mother, Fatima, who was the first suspect, gave the boy to the second suspect, Tetengi with an understanding to slaughter the boy and share his body among the three of them which included Aminatu. Tetengi did as he was told. The father returns to get the boy and the mother says that the boy disappeared shortly after Mohammed left her house same day and that she hadn’t seen the boy since then. A police source at the Homicide unit of the Criminal Investigation Department, Niger State Police Command headquarters, Minna, revealed that the father of the victim invited an Islamic scholar to unravel the mysterious disappearance of the boy.

Later, the case was taken to the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji (Dr) Yahaya Abubakar, paramount ruler of Nupeland and Chairman, Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers, with the view to know the next step to be taken by the aggrieved father over the disappearance of his son. The monarch was said to have directed the man and his family members to report the matter to the authorities of the state Police Command in order to get help in sorting the case. The suspects allegedly confessed to the crime during interrogation by the homicide detectives, as one of the suspects was said to have informed the police, that human flesh was tastier than those of animals.

This is where I asked myself what kind of world we live in? You hear all sorts of stories and one day it happens right next to you. How can grown-ups even think of eating a fellow human being? And to think that a mother was involved breaks my heart so bad. Whether the criminals agree or not, they have a psychological problem that must be treated. The child in question has been sent to an early grave in their stomachs and now every hope, dreams, ambitions, aspirations of the boy is now dead. Who knows who he could have become in the future? And how do we curb this sort of Social Problem?