Human skulls: ‘Police would not be cowed’

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) yesterday said it will not allow itself to be cowed or obstructed from investigating all individuals connected to the recent discovery of human skulls in Ilorin, Kwara State.

The police had on Wednesday 17, October, paraded eight suspects allegedly responsible for kidnapping, murder, ritual killings and exhuming dead bodies.

The suspects were also alleged to have been removing and trading in human skulls and other human body parts in Ilorin.

Police spokesman DCP Jimoh Moshood said this in a statement yesterday while reacting to a report in the Daily Trust on Sunday, October 21, 2018 captioned “Kwara lawmakers raise alarm over transfer of suspected ritualists to Abuja.”

He noted that Abdulrafiu Abdulrahman, Chairman House Committee on Information, Kwara State House of Assembly insinuated in the report that there were alleged plot by the police use the eight suspected human part dealers to implicate prominent clerics and top politicians.

He said, “Investigation into the arrested suspects in connection with the eleven human skulls and other human body parts recovered from them is still ongoing and the Police will definitely make the outcome public.”

He added that, “Any individual or group found to be connected with this heinous crime will be arrested and prosecuted. The Force has no any plan to implicate any personality in the matter and there is no any cause for any innocent person(s) to be afraid of the law.”

On the case of Offa Bank Robbery suspects referred to by Abdulrahman, he said investigation into the matter has been concluded by the Police and the case file sent to Attorney General in August 2018.

Moshood said the force is waiting on the Kwara State Attorney General to take over the suspects from the police for prosecution.