Operatives of the Niger State Police Command have arrested 16-year-old Lawal Abubakar of Kasuwan-Gwari in Minna, for attempting to exhume a body at the Chanchaga cemetery.
The state police spokesperson, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said, “At about 10.20am on Saturday, police operatives attached to Chanchaga Division arrested one Lawali Abubakar, male, of Kasuwan-Gwari, Minna.
“The suspect was arrested at Chanchaga cemetery when he attempted to exhume a body from a grave.”
Abiodun said that during interrogation, the suspect confessed to have conspired with one Hamisu of same address, currently at large, to get body parts and clothes from a body in the cemetery.