Abia LGA faults police report on discovery of 28 human skulls in forests

The Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State has said that the reported find of 28 quality skulls successful 2 communities successful the country is an aged incidental that occurred successful August 2024, not September 2026.

According to the government, determination has been nary caller find of specified a transgression hideout oregon quality skulls.

The media squad of the Local Government Chairman, Sunday Afurobi, was responding to a caller property merchandise by the Abia State Police Command, which said it had discovered 28 quality skulls and bones successful 2 forests astatine Umuaku and Nneato, Umunneochi LGA.

He said, “The attraction of the Umunneochi Local Government Administration has been drawn to a communicative presently circulating connected societal media wrong and extracurricular Umunneochi, claiming that the constabulary precocious raided a kidnappers’ hideout ‘around Umuaku-Isuochi and Nneato and discovered 28 quality skulls’, portion the suspected perpetrators escaped without being apprehended.

“We privation to authorities intelligibly that the said tract is an abandoned campy of suspected kidnappers situated astatine the bound betwixt Aku assemblage successful Okigwe LGA of Imo State and Nneato successful Umunneochi LGA. It was uncovered astir August 2024 by associated authorities information operatives moving successful synergy with our section vigilantes.

“Thus, the accusation is not a caller incidental successful Isuochi and should not beryllium seen arsenic such,” the assembly stated successful an authoritative r...