Detectives attached to the homicide unit of the Adamawa State police command have commenced investigations to unravel the circumstance that made a 24 years old man to behead his 5 years old boy.
The dastardly act occurred penultimate Wednesday last week in Ganji suburb of Gombi Local Government of Adamawa State, when Baffa Alti, 24 a cattle rearer lured his biological son, Buba to the farm, killed him and cut of the head.
Adamawa state police command paraded the suspect alongside his partner, gave a vivid account of how the suspects were arrested.
The suspect on interrogation alleged that one Alhaji Sange Hassan, 63 told him to bring a human head for a sum of N1 million.
Arrested along with the suspect, was a village head (name withheld), alleged to have requested for a human head at a fee of one million naira.
Parading the suspects before newsmen in Yola, the Command’s spokesman, DSP Muhammed Ibrahim, said that the killing occurred on July 24, in Ganji village.
According to the Police, Alti Alhaji, father of the first suspect, reported the case to the Gombi Police Divisional Headquarters that the suspect took his son (Alhaji’s grandson), to a bush but did not return with the boy.
The spokesman said when Alhaji asked the suspect where he left his grandson, he replied that the deceased was on his way home.
“After a while, the grandfather and some members of the family went to the bush to find out what exactly happened.
“It was after searching the nearby bush that they discovered the dead body of the boy, which had been beheaded and dumped in the bush,’’ Ibrahim said.
He said when arrested, the suspect confessed that he committed the crime.
“When interrogated, he confessed and pointed at a village head as the one who directed him to bring a fresh human head, at a cost of one million naira,’’ Ibrahim further revealed.
He said the two suspects were under police custody for further investigation.
Answering questions from newsmen, the first suspect alleged that the district head of a village directed him to bring a fresh human skull.
He said the district head promised to give him one million naira if he delivered.
When asked why he chose to sacrifice his biological son, he replied that when the village head gave him the order, he lost his mind.
Also answering questions from newsmen, the village head in question, aged 63, denied the allegation,insisting that he had no business with the first suspect, whom he said, was not his ‘age mate’.
“I didn’t direct him (first suspect) to commit such ugly act. In fact, I was shocked when he pointed at me, that I directed him to commit the crime,’’ he said.