Suspected cannibals in Zamfara arrested for eating a 9-year-old boy alive

Some suspected cannibals in Zamfara have been arrested by the police for eating a 9-year-old boy identified as Ahmad Yakubu Aliyu alive. More so, the parent and family of the 9-year-old boy have continued to demand justice.

According to TVCNews, the boy’s mother, Jamila Abdulrahaman Hafiz, said that their houseboy facilitated the abduction of her son.

A prominent car dealer with three wives and 19 children was on Tuesday, January 25 was arraigned alongside four other suspects before a chief magistrate’s court in Gusau for killing, decapitating and eating body parts of the boy.

Aminu Baba confessed to eating and selling human parts to some unknown persons. He also said he contracted two teenagers to scout for young boys to kill for him and they had done that twice, getting N1million in return.

However, they have been arraigned by the police on three count charges bordering on criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and cannibalism offences which are contrary to sections 97, 222 and 218 of the Penal Code Law.

Meanwhile, when the magistrate, Sa’adu Gurbin Bore, read the charges against them and they all pleaded not guilty, he adjourned the case till February 8, 2022, for mentioning.

The decision did not go down well with the parents and relations of the victim as they created a scene outside the court which could not be controlled until police reinforcement arrived.

Some of the relations of the Victim were chanting “We will not accept a delay, in this case, we need Justice among other things”

While giving a background view of the cannibals in Zamfara and what had happened earlier, the spokesperson of the Zamfara State Police Command Superintendent Mohammed Shehu led the Suspects to court

He said they will face the court on their involvement and participation in the killing of a nine-year-old boy Ahmad Yakubu

“On December 28th last year, the corpse of one Ahmad Yakubu nine year old was found in an uncompleted building at Barakallahu area in Gusau, with its two hands and legs tied with a rag, head covered with a polyethene bag and some of the human parts missing”

“Then, on January 4th 2022, Police detectives acted on intelligence reports and arrested a suspect by name Aminu Baba and four others in connection with the killing,” the police said