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A High Court successful Gombe State has sentenced 5 men to situation for exhuming a corpse and removing its eyes astatine a Muslim graveyard successful Kwami Local Government Area of the state.
The prosecution, led by authorities counsel Ahmed Yakubu Gombe, told the tribunal that the defendants were arraigned connected a 10-count complaint bordering connected transgression conspiracy, attempted offence, causing indignity to a corpse, unlawful introduction into a graveyard, theft, demolition of nationalist property, rank of an unlawful society, usage of unlawful charms, and unlawful possession of a quality head.
Yakubu said the offences were committed connected September 11, 2025, astatine the Gadam Muslim graveyard, wherever the accused persons allegedly conspired with 2 different suspects, identified arsenic Aliyu Baka and Reuben, who are presently astatine large, to exhume the sedate of a deceased man, Malam Manu Wanzam.
“They jointly exhumed the sedate of the precocious Malam Manu Wanzam, unwrapped the burial shroud and brought retired the caller corpse. The defendants past removed the 2 eyes from the corpse,” the authoritative told the court.
He added that 1 of the fleeing suspects allegedly escaped with the removed eyes, believed to beryllium intended for ritual purposes.
“The accused persons unlawfully entered the Muslim graveyard astatine night, exhumed the corpse and removed the eyes of the deceased for ritual purposes, thereby causing indignity to the corpse and the grave,” Yakubu said.
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