The joint operations comprising the police, army and NSCDC in Zamfara State, have arrested a human parts vendor with the eyes and manhood recovered from him, alongside other suspects arrested for various alleged criminal activities in the State.
The State Commissioner of Police, Ayuba Elkanah, who disclosed this on Thursday during a press briefing in Gusau, the State Capital, said one Aminu Baba, a buyer of human parts was arrested and he confessed to the crime.
According to the Commissioner of Police, Aminu Baba, who is a father of 19 children, further confessed that he eats the human parts, especially the throat which is the most delicious part of the body.
Ayuba Elkanah further hinted that during interrogation, one of the suspects confessed to have been he contracted to source for human parts for the sum of five hundred thousand naira (N500,000).
The C.P lauded the concerted efforts of the sister security agencies which led to the rescue of 17 kidnapped victims and the arrest of a female Nigerien who stole her neighbour’s child.
He disclosed that military operatives deployed along Dansadau road in Maru LGA intercepted and rescued some 17 victims, who were allegedly kidnapped on December 14, 2021, in Wamba village, Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State.
According to him, the 17 rescued victims were handed over to the Zamfara state Command by the Brigade Commander 1 Brigade Nigerian Army, Gusau, and they were medically checked, debriefed by the police and thereafter handed over to the Niger State Police Command for reunion with their families.