The police in Kano have arrested a 100-year-old grandmother, simply identified as Furera, for alleged complicity in the plucking of the eye of an almajir boy in the state.
Her arrest followed the confession of the principal suspect, 27-year-old Isah Hassan, who admitted that he acted at the prompting of the grandmother.
The principal suspect, who is a resident of Dantsinke layin Rimin Hamza Quarters, Tarauni Local Government Area (LGA), Kano State, said he met the grandmother through her grandson, Sani Abdulrahman after he requested a charm to enable him to disappear at will.
He further confessed that the grandmother, after their initial meeting, instructed him to deliver an eyeball of a human being for preparation of the charm.
“I then went and deceived one almajiri, lured him to a nearby bush, tied his hands and forcefully used a sharp knife and plucked his right eyeball,” he stated.
He added that when he delivered the eyeball to the grandmother as requested, she asked him for N500, adding that following his inability to make available the N500, she asked him to keep the eyeball in a safe place and return it whenever he got the money.
The suspect said he kept the eyeball for three days, only to later discover that it had decayed and he threw it away.
Meanwhile, Kano State Police Commissioner, Sumaila Dikko, has ordered that the case be transferred to the Command’s Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation while assuring that the suspects will be charged to court upon completion of the investigation.
