The police in Plateau State have arrested and paraded a 21-year suspect who murdered an eight-year-old boy and plucked out his eyes for rituals. Showing the accused and his accomplices to newsmen in Jos, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Chris Olakpe, said the incident occurred in February at Shwar village of Kanke Local Government in the central senatorial zone.

Tacha Tali (the suspect) was said to have waylaid the victim Goltona Salih, before strangulating him and using a knife to pluck out his eyes.

It was confirmed that the father of the boy, Salih, reported the matter to the police, when he discovered the decomposing corpse of his son.

The police in Plateau State have arrested and paraded a 21-year suspect who murdered an eight-year-old boy and plucked out his eyes for rituals. Showing the accused and his accomplices to newsmen in Jos, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Chris Olakpe, said the incident occurred in February at Shwar village of Kanke Local Government in the central senatorial zone.

Tacha Tali (the suspect) was said to have waylaid the victim Goltona Salih, before strangulating him and using a knife to pluck out his eyes. It was confirmed that the father of the boy, Salih, reported the matter to the police, when he discovered the decomposing corpse of his son, after the boy failed to return home from his grazing post.

The police commissioner in Plateau, confirmed the incident, saying that on July 26, Tacha was arrested with dry human eyes and subsequently confessed, in the course of interrogation, that the body parts belonged to Goltona.

The suspect, according to the commissioner, also named his co-conspirators, two of whom are herbalists.
Tacha told journalist in an interview that he handed the eyes to the herbalists, Kulime Nangkum and Tapyitda, to prepare a disappearing charm and the items, that is, the eyes, were returned to him after the necessary rites were performed on them.

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Plateau state – Man plucks out 8 year old boy’s eyes for ritual