Four teenagers have been arrested in Mbo State Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State when they went looking for a buyer of a human skull in their possession.
The Akwa Ibom State Police Public Relations Officer, Delia Nwawe, said the suspects were arrested by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department(CID) on receiving an alert from vigilant youths in the area.
The alleged leader of the group, Emmanuel Edet Ikot denied the accusation, claiming that he only stumbled on a human skull while working at an uncompleted building for a man who had paid him to cut grasses.
"I was paid to cut grass and clean up an uncompleted building by one man in Oron. As i was clearing the place i stumbled on a human skull. I then rushed to inform my friends of what i found and in the company of those my friends, we went to pick the human skull.
