Police operatives in Niger State have arrested five suspects have for allegedly being in possession of a human skull.

The suspects have been identified as 26-year-old Isah Mohammed; 28-year-old Idris Mohammed; 18-year-old Ibrahim Jiya; 22-year-old Suleiman Usman and 24-year-old Abdullahi Usman.

They were arrested on Monday, September 11, by operatives of a sister security agency on routine patrol at the toll-gate along Bida-Minna road.

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The suspects, during interrogation, confessed they dug out the three-year corpse of one Ndako Daniyan from the Sakpe village b¥rial ground in Edati LGA of the state.

The reason why we did this is because we want to be rich. It is not easy living in Nigeria. Life is hard and we want to be rich so that we will leave this poverty and life of hardship,” Isah said.