{"id":199964,"date":"2020-03-09T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T11:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=199964"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T11:27:11","slug":"i-dig-graves-sell-human-skulls-man-confesses-as-police-nab-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=199964","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I dig graves, sell human skulls&#8217; &#8211; Man confesses as Police nab gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Police Command in Lagos State have arrested three men for allegedly removing a human skull from a cemetery for ritual purposes.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Bala Elkana, Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in a statement on Sunday, said one of them revealed that he routinely dug graves to remove human skulls and sell.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman stated that policemen from Area \u2018E\u2019 Command in Festac, arrested the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>They are Dauda Tijani, 42, of No. 23, Omomwunmi Street, Orege Ajegunle; Olawale Shodolamu, 70, an herbalist and Seun Falana, 37, a staff member of Trinity Cemetery in Ajegunle.<\/p>\n<p>Tijani was intercepted at Alakija Bus Stop along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway by the police, who found a black polythene bag containing a human skull with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect confessed that he was sent by the herbalist, Shodolamu, to collect the skull from a cemetery\u2019s attendant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe herbalist claimed that he bought the human skull from Falana at the sum of N10,000 only.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspected herbalist usually grinds the human skull together with other substances to prepare herbs and charms for his customers,\u201d Elkana noted.<\/p>\n<p>Elkana said third suspect confessed that he had been digging graves in the past to remove human skulls and sell to herbalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigation is ongoing. The suspects will soon be charged to court,\u201d the statement added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Command in Lagos State have arrested three men for allegedly removing a human skull from a cemetery for ritual purposes. DSP Bala Elkana, Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in a statement on Sunday, said one of them revealed that he routinely dug graves to remove human skulls and sell. The spokesman stated that policemen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,250,61],"class_list":["post-199964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-lagos","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}