Nine-Man Gang Of Serial Ritualists Arrested By Police

A nine-man gang of serial ritualists known as “Karangiya,” who specialize in dismembering body parts of their victims, has been apprehended by the Borno police command.

Abdu Umar, the state’s commissioner of police, revealed to reporters on Friday, January 20, that the suspects were taken into custody on December 16, 2022, by members of the command.

They recently performed a surgery on a victim whose eyes were removed around the Post Office area.

Umar said; “There was another case where a woman was killed and thrown into the river and her body parts were removed.

“On the 16th of Dec, 2022, at about 19:45 hrs, one Mohammed Bukar, 18-year-old, from Shuwari area in Maiduguri, went and reported at Jere Division that he was on his way to collect his GSM phone from charging together with his friend.

“He said that they sighted a group of youths who called themselves members of ‘KARANGIYA GROUP’, a nine-man gang, armed with sticks and cutlasses coming towards their direction.

“On reaching them, the members of the group started beating Mr Bukar while his friend took to his heels and ran for his life.

“It was in the process that one of the armed members, Ali Bukar, used a long knife and attempted to cut the head of the victim, but the victim used his left hand to shield his head.

“Again, the suspects lifted the cutlass and cut off the hand of the victim and ran away, leaving him in a pool of blood.”

The police quickly attacked the scene, according to the commissioner, and detained Ali Bukar, the main suspect, along with eight other people who would be investigated and later charged.

Following the completion of the investigation, the suspects would be charged in court.

Kudos to the Borno State police command for taking these criminals off the streets.