The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a nine-man gang of suspected cultists under the name of Neo Black Movement, NBM, with one full jerry can of human blood.
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mansur Hussaini, said the suspected ritualists were arrested at a cemetery in Dutsen Abba ward along the Zaria -Kaduna expressway following a tip-off from an anonymous source.
He said the suspected ritualists, were apprehended while initiating the new members, as they confessed to getting the human blood after slaughtering an aged man and disposing of his body along the Jaji Military Cantonment.
The suspects also confessed that the man’s vital body parts were dismembered but were taken away by another gang which came from Kaduna.
Following the arrest of the seven suspected ritualists along the Zaria -Kaduna expressway, he said that two other suspects were apprehended by the locals, at ABU Congo Conference Hotels, along old Jos road, stressing that they are Austin Ifinju from Ondo State, aged 28 and Yoruba by tribe and Aliyu Ali Yahaya, resident of Hadu Nasko road Abuja, aged 24. Agatu by tribe and a student of ABU Samaru.
The PRO noted that investigation is ongoing and the suspect will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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