How father beheads 5-yr-old son for N1m in Adamawa

YOLA —Detectives attached to the homicide
unit of the Adamawa State police command
have commenced investigations to unravel the
circumstance that led a 24-year-old man to
behead his five-year-old son.
The dastardly act occurred last Wednesday in
Ganji suburb of Gombi Local Government of
Adamawa State, when Baffa Alti, 24, a cattle
rearer, lured his biological son, Buba, to the
farm and beheaded him.
The father of the beheaded child, Baffa Alti
(left) and Alhaji Sange Hassan, the accomplice.
Adamawa State police command where the
suspect alongside his accomplice were paraded
gave a vivid account of how the suspects were
arrested.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, PPRO,
Ibrahim Mohammed, a DSP, told newsmen that
the father of the prime suspect, Alhaji Guza,
had earlier reported to the police in Gombi
that his grandson was missing.
Guza also told the police that the boy went to
the farm with his father, only for the father to
return home without him.
According to the police, when Alhaji Guza
accosted his son, asking for the whereabouts
of his grandson, he told his father that he left
him behind in the farm and that he would
return later.
Days rolled by and the boy did not return
from the farm which made Guza to lodge a
complaint at the Gombi divisional police
station where a search party was
commissioned.
The search led to the discovery of the
beheaded decomposing body of Buba under a
tree in the farm covered with leaves.
The suspect was later arrested and on
interrogation, he said one Alhaji Sange Hassan,
63, told him to bring a human head for N1
million.
Baffa Datti confessed to committing the act,
saying he intended using the money to raise
the status of his father, mother and his family.
Alhaji Sange Hassan who is now cooling his
heels in the cell of the state CID with Baffa Alti
however, denied ever telling him to bring a
human head.
The suspects, according to the police, will soon
be charged to court after investigation.