How police arrested Kano native doctor trying to remove newborn baby’s eye

A suspected native doctor in Kano, Yahaya Shehu, has been arrested after trying to remove an eye of a newborn baby for rituals.

The incident happened in Hotoro, Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano.

Reports said the native doctor had promised one Kabiru Sani N8m and a car in order to get a new born baby for the ritual.

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The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the incidence saying that the suspect has already been arrested and will soon be prosecuted.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said they arrested him after Sani, who earlier went to the native doctor, reported the issue to them.

Kiyawa said, “After Sani went to the native doctor for medication, he then prescribed something for him and ordered that he mixes it with his urine and bathe with it for three days.

“Upon his resumption after the three days period, the doctor still gave him some water to be used, which made him to start misbehaving and doing anything the native doctor ordered him to do, until the day he asked him to go and bring a new born baby from his relatives whose left eye is to be removed for ritual.

“This was what prompted him to meet his elder sister pleading with her to sacrifice her son for the ritual which he said is for one soldier.

“It was at that point that the sister became so worried and took Sani to the police station where they reported the native doctor,” Kiyawa said.

The PPRO said the police, upon receiving the complaint quickly arrested the native doctor in Hotoro area of Kano metropolis.

He said they were also able to recover coffin, sand, calabash with some ritual inscriptions on it and other ritual materials at the point of his arrest.

Kiyawa said the state Commissioner of Police, Habu Sani, had ordered the case to be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and subsequent arraignment.