Just when we thought we had heard it all, another
gory story of horror and man’s inhumanity to man
breaks out from somewhere.
This time it is at Doso Village in Doko District of
Niger State, where a woman known as Fatima
Saraka Mohammed slaughtered her nine-year-old
grandson, Mohammed, shared his roasted flesh
and drank his blood in connivance with two other
people in an apparent act of cannibalism.
LEADERSHIP Friday gathered that little Mohammed
was always attached to his grandmother, and
whenever he was not with his parents, he would
always be found nestling in her arms or sleeping
beside her; he was quite fond of her.
But how tragic, and ironic, that it is this same
grandmother that would turn around and end the
little boy’s life by this heinous act, something that
can only be heard of only in fairytale books. Many
people describe it as heartless and some cannot
believe that a human being, in his or her normal
senses, could be that cruel to any child, much less
her own blood.
The search for the missing Mohammed
The story started when the father of the boy,
Mohammed Doko, could not locate his son after he
came back from an outing. Usually, the little boy
would be the first to welcome him any time he went
out.
LEADERSHIP Friday’s findings revealed that as soon
as this ritual was not done, Mohammed Doko was
prompted to commence an intense search for the
boy, a search that went from minutes to hours, and
from days to weeks, but the boy was nowhere to be
found. The search, it was learnt, even took him to
neighbouring villages but when the search did not
yield any positive outcome, he became even more
agitated.
LEADERSHIP Friday also gathered that in the
process of the search, one of the villagers told the
father of the child that he saw the child with his
grandmother some days ago, when she was leading
him along a nearby bush path.
Further investigations by the boy’s father, it was
gathered, actually led the missing boy to his
grandmother’s place about 50 metres away from
his own compound in Doso village, invariably
making it easy for the boy to always be with the
grandmother.
It was at this stage that Fatima was confronted by
the villagers. At first, she vehemently denied any
knowledge of his whereabouts, or even that she had
seen the boy before his disappearance.
After a lot of pressure by the villagers, and threats
of calling in the police, Fatima finally caved in and
admitted that the boy was taken to a nearby bush
where she had invited one Zhitsu Aliyu, a 38-year
old man, to help her slaughter her grandson and
collect the blood in a bowl, all this in connivance
with her friend, Amina Wusa Mohammed. Both of
them, she said, belonged to the same cult of
witches.
Fatima narrated how she and her collaborators
each took part in drinking young Mohammed’s
blood and having their share of his flesh after
roasting it.
The villagers carefully searched the crime scene and
recovered the knife used in killing the boy and the
blood-stained clothes confirming the dastardly act.
Consequently, the villagers invited the policemen in
Bida division and handed Fatima and her
collaborators over to the detectives.
The three suspects were later moved to the office
of the Anti-Homicide squad at the State Criminal
Investigation Department (SCID), Niger State Police
Command, where the investigation into the matter
commenced.
Fatima and the two collaborators also allegedly
confessed to the police that she actually abducted
her nine-year-old grandson for several days before
slaughtering him.
Fatima confessed that she was aided in
slaughtering her grandson by Zhitsu Aliyu and
Amina Wusa Mohammed, 65, with whom she
shared membership of a witchcraft cult.
The three also said they collectively shared the
flesh of the boy among them and drank his blood
to satisfy their witchcraft spirit and that they had
arranged to present their grandchildren and
children to the cult when it was their turn to do so.
“I am the first to kill my grandchild, and this is our
first time. It was God that exposed us,” Fatima told
the policemen at their headquarters in Minna.
She said that they regretted their action and
blamed it on the spirit that pushed them, praying
that God should forgive them, because they now
know that what they did was inhuman.
The police public relations officer, Ibrahim Abiodun
Gambari, who spoke on the incident, said that
investigation was ongoing and that the culprits had
been arraigned before the court of law.
The suspects were arraigned at the Chief
Magistrate’s Court, presided over by Alhaji Hameed
Ahmed Bima.
At the court, the presiding magistrate could not
hide his disdain for the act and subjected them to
serious questioning. The charge sheet was read to
them and they all pleaded guilty to the three-count
charge of conspiracy, culpable homicide and
cannibalism, which contravene Section 97, 218 and
221 of the penal code.
The chief magistrate described the deeds of the
three suspects as heartless and ungodly and told
them that they will surely pay for their sins here on
earth.
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Jeez! Wonders they say "shall never end." Those heartless idiots should be skinned alive before being fed to hungry dogs.