The Police in Kano have arrested a 107-year-old woman Furaira Abubakar and 17-year-old boy, Isa Hassan for alleged ritual activities.
The state police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa who disclosed this, said Furaira was arrested after Hassan implicated the old woman.
According to the police, Hassan had plucked the eyes of 12-year-old almajiri boy, because he desperately needed a charm that can make him disappear, adding that he needed the charms to overpower bandits, who often terrorize him and his friends in the Bauchi State forest each time they are searching for charcoal, which they produce by felling and burning trees in the forest.
According to the police, Hassan plucked Isa’s eyes at Sheka Quarters, Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano after the 17-year-old boy lured his victim to a nearby bush, where he tied him standing upright and plucked out his right eye, with a sharp knife, and abandoned him to bleed to death.
The police said the suspect said his friend Sani Abdulraham hinted him that his grandmother, (107-year-old) Furaira Abubakar, a herbalist, can help him prepare the charm to make him invisible to the gunmen terrorising them in the forest.
Thereafter, he said, the old woman asked him to produce a human eye, as an ingredient to prepare the charm for him.
However, Furaira, who admitted being a herbalist, denied having any knowledge to prepare disappearing charms, adding that she does not engage in producing disappearing charms.
Kiyawa said shortly after the police received the disturbing report, the Commissioner of Police, Sama’ila Shu’aibu Dikko, raised a team that rushed the victim to the hospital, where a medical doctor confirmed that his left eye was forcefully removed, with an object.
He said the suspect was arrested after the police trailed and apprehended him, adding that he has since confessed to committing the crime.
He added that his confession also aided the arrest of the 107-year- old woman, whom he claimed, sent him to get the eye.
The spokesman said the case has been transferred to the CID Department for discreet investigation, at the end of which the suspects would be charged to court.
