The police in Akwa Ibom State, South-south Nigeria, said they had arrested a suspected ritualist with a human skull.
The police spokesperson in the state, Odiko Macdon, disclosed this on Friday in a text of the second quarter news briefing by the Commissioner of Police in the state, Olatoye Durosinmi.
The suspect, Edu Ime of Mbak Etoi in Uyo Local Government Area, was arrested on 15 May at a popular Urua Ekpa Junction around Calabar-Itu Highway, Mr Durosinmi said.
“Suspect could not give any reasonable explanation as to why he was in possession of a human skull but named their ring leader, who is a suspected ritualist,” he said.
Reviewing the police achievements in Akwa Ibom in the last three months, Mr Durosinmi said 269 suspects had been arrested for offences ranging from murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, rape and cultism.
