"I killed my friend, took his Heart to a Native doctor"

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four persons for alleged murder of their friend for money making rituals.

The suspects are presently being  interrogated at that homicide section of the State Criminal and Intelligence Department (SCID), Panti ,Yaba.

One of the suspects, Daniel  confessed that: "We are from Chibok in Maiduguri.We are four that  killed our friend,Isaiah James,  for ritual purposes,though it was not our initial plan to do so.We wanted to do charms to excel in advance fee fraud (419),but the native doctor who we  consulted told us that he won't do charms for us in the aspect of 419.We asked why and he told us that we are not educated. He told us that we should be literate before we could do 419.We asked if there was another alternative ,and he said he would perform a ritual out of sympathy for us .He told us to provide a human's heart.That was the beginning of our problems.

" When the witch doctor told us to bring human's heart, we told him to help us organise it.He promised to to do so and charged us N100,000.We paid him  N60,000 and promised to balance the N40,000.Few days later,the Babalawo (native doctor) called us to say that one of his boys who he sent on the mission for the humans heart hunting was shot in the hand by vigilante group. He said he won't be able to provide us with the heart.He said we should provide the heart for the rituals.

"We became confused about what to do,until our leader Audu,suggested that he would lure his cousin who is also our friend to where we would kill him and plock his heart,so we agreed to use his heart for the rituals. We called him on phone and told him to meet us in a drinking joint at Ajah. He agreed to meet us.Really ,he did not suspect foul play as he was comfortable with us.We met at night and we started drinking local jin.We bought him fried yam .At about 1am,we said we should go home.As we were trekking home,Audu who was armed with a knife ,said he was going to urinate ,so also all of us and our target equally joined us to the corner.

It was at that corner,that we all rushed at him,pulled him down and hit him with hard object and Audu stabbed him .

" When we noticed that he was dying, Ayuba butchered him, searched inside, but he could not find the heart. I collected the knives from him and put my hand inside,I found the heart. His heart was still alive, it was shacking and I pulled it out with the help of the knife.We took it to the native doctor at Ijebu Ode, Ogun State .He used it to prepare beans for us.He promised that after eating the beans portage, we would start making big money. He said that anything we laid our hands must prosper.He requested for the N40,000 balance which we paid him.We have just finished the beans meal when the Police came to pick me.A lady who saw us the night we killed Isaiah, told the his people that she saw us in company of him.We are all from Chibok in Maiduguri. Well,when the police came to me,I confessed. I did not feel anything killing him,human being is the same thing with animals. My regret is that we did not succeed in making the money and that the native doctor escaped arrest".