Caught redhanded, Grandmother sells human parts @ N5,000, N1,000 and N20,000.

At the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos, a 54-year-old grandmother confessed a bewildered crowd on how she sold human skull for N20,000.

The suspect, Sukuratu Salami, who was paraded alongside a cemetery guard and two others,were arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Joju area of Sango Ota, with a human head, intestines, bones, kidney and other human parts. Narrating how she entered into the business, the mother of three said: 

"A herbalist approached me last year and demanded for human parts. When he told me how much they buy the parts, I was tempted.

I approached one Tantoloun, who works in a grave yard. He sold a skull for N10,000 and I sold it in return for N20,000. Greed made me to continue until I was arrested.

I bought pieces of bones for N2,000, liver and intestines for N1,000 each and resell for N5,000 or more depending on the buyer's bargaining power.

I am not a killer. I have never killed anyone. I only request for decomposed human parts. I needed the money to feed my three children of ages 30, 27 and 23 respectively.

Those who patronize me are herbalists and trado-medical practitioners. The parts are used to prepare concoction for sick children. So far, I have only sold 10 human skulls."

The state Police Commissioner, Umar Manko, who paraded the suspects, said the command took interest in the case following the mysterious disappearance of persons.

According to him, "detectives led by the SARS commander, Abba Kyari, posed as buyers and bought a human head from Salami at N120,000.

-Vanguard