IN ABUJA, POLICE DETAIN THREE ALLEGED RITUALISTS CARRYING COFFINS.

Three suspects, Uluko Adukwu, 28, Salisu Aduh, 38, and Adams Halilu, 24, have been detained by the police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on suspicion of being ritualists.

Publicity Officer, Abuja’s Zone 7 Command, SP Istifanus In a statement released in Abuja, Sunday Bako made this known.
He claimed that on Wednesday, a team of investigators stormed Jikwoyi and Orozo along the Karu axis in response to useful information.

The three suspects, who are all from Kogi State and live in the nation’s capital, were apprehended along with two boys, aged 11 and 13, who were thought to be their victims.
According to Bako, the gang admitted to employing charms to deceive individuals and providing charms to Yahoo Plus-style ritualistic internet criminals.

The fraudsters employ the charms on their targets in turn, the police saw, sometimes killing some of the victims.

From the suspects, items including three empty coffins, a Toyota Prado, a Lexus 330, and 15 cell phones were found.

Clothing and women’s underwear that belonged to the victims’ dead bodies were also found.

People were warned to exercise caution in their places of worship and to report any suspicious activity to the police by the Zone 7 AIG, Kayode Egbetokun (now DIG).