Zamfara governor, deputy’s names found at shrine

Sani Muhammad Sani, Gusau

POLICE in Zamfara State have  raided a shrine where devotees reportedly use unorthodox methods to attack highly placed individuals in the state, Commissioner of Police  Usman Nagoggo has said.

He said the names of Governor Bello Matawalle, his deputy Mahdi Aliyu, and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Ibrahim Mallaha, among others, topped a two-page foolscap list found in the shrine.

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Briefing newsmen on police findings at the shrine, Nagoggo claimed that lizards, ants and all sorts of living things die whenever the suspected fetish priests enter the shrine.

The police chief also claimed the shrine is inaccessible to non-members.

Items recovered during the raid included a calabash filled with suspected human blood, another calabash designed like a helmet with Arabic inscriptions on it.

Charcoal, perfume, a polythene bag containing clothes of many colours and a drawing of a human skeleton, among other items, were also found, Nsagoggo said.