The Delta State Police Command has arrested a native doctor, Godfrey Akpudje, for removing the skull of a sixty-five-year-old woman after exhuming her corpse at Ekpan Ovu in Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state.
A statement by the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Bright Edafe, said the sixty years old native doctor who was arrested on Thursday, June 24, 2021, following intelligence gathering also had in his possession another human skull.
Akpudje according to the statement claimed he got the second human skull from Osun State through a native doctor who is now late.
Meanwhile, the Command’s Dragon patrol team 31 on Monday, June 28, 2021, arrested three suspects who were found with a container filled with fresh human blood.
According to the police statement, the three suspects, Monday Nwite, Madabuchi Nweke and Nwite Sunday all of Ebenta village in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State “confessed to having murdered some unknown persons in Ebonyi State and were on their way with the murdered person’s blood to a native doctor whose identity is unknown for now but resides in Kwale.
“They were taking the blood to the said native doctor for rituals purposes. One rosary necklace tied with charms was also recovered from them.”
