A standard healer in Adamawa State has been arrested after the physique of an 11-year-old boy was allegedly mutilated whereas in his custody.
The incident occurred on 13 April in Kodumun, a neighborhood in Demsa Native Authorities Space, the place the suspect, recognized as Murtala Musa, had been treating the boy for an undisclosed sickness.
In accordance with the boy’s mom, her son, Yangapwa David, died whereas present process therapy on the herbalist’s residence. She stated she left the physique with the healer and went into city to rearrange for a car to move the corpse for burial.
Nevertheless, upon her return, she was met with a deeply disturbing sight.
“Once I got here again, I found that my son’s left eye had been eliminated,” she instructed native leaders, prompting quick neighborhood concern.
The village head contacted the Adamawa State Police Command, which deployed officers to the scene. The herbalist was subsequently arrested and brought into custody.
The state’s police authorities say an intensive investigation is underway, led by the State Felony Investigation Division (SCID).
Commissioner of Police, CP Dankwambo Morris, confirmed the arrest and warranted residents that the matter could be handled with the seriousness it deserves.
“The suspect will stay within the custody of the command because the State Felony Investigation Division is conducting a discreet investigation on the incident,” he stated.
Morris added that the protection of residents stays a high precedence and pledged that these discovered responsible of legal exercise could be prosecuted.
The incident has left many locally shaken, with requires stricter oversight on conventional therapeutic practices and extra consciousness concerning the dangers concerned in in search of therapy from unregulated practitioners.
Authorities are additionally exploring whether or not the act could also be linked to ritual practices, a priority that has develop into extra frequent in elements of the nation.
The police have urged members of the general public to report any suspicious exercise of their communities as efforts proceed to root out acts of violence disguised as conventional drugs.
Earlier, NewsWatch.com.ng reported that Jigawa State Police Command confirmed on December 4 {that a} communal conflict that occurred on December 3 within the Miga Native Authorities Space resulted within the demise of 9 folks and left 4 others injured.
The incident has led to vital unrest locally, with many others hospitalized.
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