An elderly man has been arrested for allegedly sending an individual to steal a baby to gouge his eyes out for ritual purposes.
Salient Times reports that Operatives from the Bompai Police Station apprehended the man identified as Malam Yahaya from the Utoro community in Kano State, after an individual, whom he had allegedly “hypnotised”, was caught attempting to abduct the child.
The “hypnotised” person identified as Kabir Sani, led the police to Yahaya’s residence, where officers found fetish items, including a calabash with an inscription, white and red clothes, and various charms.
Sani said, “My name is Kabir Sani. I reside in Utoro, and I am 25 years old. I came to visit Malam because I was not feeling well. He gave me some medicine with water and told me to use my urine for three days.
“After I came back, he gave me ‘Tulare’ perfume and Hantu. Immediately, my brain shut down, and I was not myself. Anything he told me to do, I did without questioning his authority.
“He told me that he would give me N1 million, but he asked me to go and find a child whose eyes he would remove to use in preparing a charm for a soldier to make him disappear.
“I went to my sister’s house and told her everything Malam Yahaya asked me to do. I told her that I wasn’t myself anymore. I tried to find an 8-month-old child who lives in our house.
“Unfortunately, I was unable to bring the child because if I had, Malam Yahaya would have removed his eyes.”
“I’m pleading with people to help me beg Malam to return my senses to normal,” Sani added.
