Police parade two kidnappers, 47 others with human skulls

Rivers state Police Command on Friday paraded 49 suspected armed robbers, cultists and two notorious kidnappers, Alex Obubu and Alaso Igbo.

Punch reports the suspects were said to be involved in different crimes that had caused much tension in the state.
Two human skulls and some other parts of human beings were presented to press men during the parading of the suspects.

One of the skulls was identified by a suspect, Chika Amadi, to be the remains of the head of one Mr. Ebubedike Wabali.

Amadi said Wabali was the leader of Degbam cult group in Isiokpo community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state.

Amadi added that the victim was killed and beheaded during a clash of supremacy between Degbam and Icelanders cult groups in the area. “We beheaded him in February during a cult war. We did not intend to kill him, but as he wanted to escape, I touched the trigger. I never knew that the gun was not on safety,” the suspect confessed.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Francis Odesanya, reiterated police commitment to restoring peace in the state.

Odesanya, who spoke while parading the suspects in Port Harcourt, narrated that the gangs were smashed during different operations at various criminal hideouts in the state by the Tactical Unit of the command and the Inspector General’s Monitoring Unit present.